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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Above all, 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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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. – Brent Scowcroft

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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. – Author Unknown

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The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints. – Samuel Hendel

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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. – Anita Brookner

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