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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings

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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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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Joseph Ratzinger
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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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Freedom
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A persons worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

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Society

Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing

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Society

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. – James Connolly

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Society

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Society

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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. – Pete Seeger

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Singing

I never thought of losing, but now that it s happened, the only thing is to do it right. Thats my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. – Muhammad Ali

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Life

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Duty

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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