Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

The family is more sacred than the state.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.