Quote by Joseph Ratzinger
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. – Joseph Ratzinger

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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Faith
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The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution. – Joseph Ratzinger

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Women
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We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. – Joseph Ratzinger

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legal
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. – B. R. Ambedkar

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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. – Warren E. Burger

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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Our work is a scream of freedom. – Christo

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John Cage

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You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. – Georges Bataille

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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