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Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour by Pope Leo XIII
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“Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere...for the solace to its troubles.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: On the Condition of the Working Classes
“The socialists, therefore, in setting aside the parent and setting up a State supervision, act against natural justice, and destroy the structure of the home.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour
“28. It is a capital evil with respect to the question We are discussing to take for granted that the one class of society is of itself hostile to the other, as if nature had set rich and poor against each other to fight fiercely in implacable war. This is so abhorrent to reason and truth that the exact opposite is true; for just as in the human body the different members harmonize with one another, whence arises that disposition of parts and proportion in the human figure rightly called symmetry, so likewise nature has commanded in the case of the State that the two classes mentioned should agree harmoniously and should properly form equally balanced counterparts to each other.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour
“Mas, além da injustiça do seu sistema, vêem-se bem todas as suas funestas consequências, a perturbação em todas as classes da sociedade, uma odiosa e insuportável servidão para todos os cidadãos, porta aberta a todas as invejas, a todos os descontentamentos, a todas as discórdias; o talento e a habilidade privados dos seus estímulos, e, como consequência necessária, as riquezas estancadas na sua fonte; enfim, em lugar dessa igualdade tão sonhada, a igualdade na nudez, na indigência e na miséria. Por tudo o que Nós acabamos de dizer, se compreende que a teoria socialista da propriedade colectiva deve absolutamente repudiar-se como prejudicial àqueles membros a que se quer socorrer, contrária aos direitos naturais dos indivíduos, como desnaturando as funções do Estado e perturbando a tranquilidade pública. Fique, pois, bem assente que o primeiro fundamento a estabelecer por todos aqueles que querem sinceramente o bem do povo é a inviolabilidade da propriedade particular.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour
“The rich should tremble at the threatenings of Jesus Christ.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter - Rights and Duties of Capital and Labour