"The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love."

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Source : Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.105, SPCK

Pope Francis

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“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?”

Source : "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.
“Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
“I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.”
“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”
“The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.”
“We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'”
“I am glad I met you and I am glad to say that.”
“It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.”

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