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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Pope John Paul II

  • "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church."

  • "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate."

  • "There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."

  • "Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

  • "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."

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