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The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

— Pope John Paul II Centesimus Annus (1991)

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How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Fides et Ratio (1998)

As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man.

Veritatis Splendor (1993)

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