Pope Pius XII Quotes (4 Quotes)

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's.' One would like to add Give unto man things which are man's give man his freedom and personality, his rights and religion.

If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work.

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction the kindling of passions, not their pacification the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.