 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. |
| I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. |
| As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Topics: Family |
| The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. |
| War is a defeat for humanity. |
| 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. |
| Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. |
| The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. |
| You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers. |
| The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. |
| The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. |
| Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. |
| 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. |
| Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. |
| I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. |
| I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. |
| From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. |
