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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you.

That is why they have poets—to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.