52 Quotes by Pope Leo XIII

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.