Italian Diplomat Quotes

Pope John XXIII

Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius IX

Pope Paul VI

Pope Pius II

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Last words:

I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

Pope John XXIII

The more true science advances, the more it discovers God, almost, as though he were standing, vigilant behind every door which science opens.

No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.

For what, in all the world, is more common than love? What state, what little town, what family lacks examples? Who, that has reached his thirtieth year, has not endured some villainy for love's sake? I conjecture from myself whom love has sent into a thousand perils, and I thank the Gods above that I have a thousand times escaped the ambushes prepared for me; more fortunate in my star than Mars whom Vulcan took with Venus, and caught them in an iron net, and displayed them, as a laughing-stock, to the other Gods.