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"Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist."<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120, (May 15, 1931)

"Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist."<ref>[http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html Quadragesimo Anno], (May 15, 1931)</ref><br />- [[Pope Pius XI]], Quadragesimo Anno, Section 120, (May 15, 1931)

"I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309-310}}</ref><br /> - [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]], One Lost Sheep, (April 28th, 1889)</ref>

"I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309-310}}</ref><br /> - [[Charles Haddon Spurgeon]], One Lost Sheep, (April 28th, 1889)

==Quotes==

==Quotes==

"''Secondly. Socialism would fail because government is corrupt to-day, and would be more so if it controlled all things.''

"''Secondly. Socialism would fail because government is corrupt to-day, and would be more so if it controlled all things.''<br />

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But what makes government corrupt to-day? Is it not the power of money amassed in a few private hands? Is it not this that corrupts our parties, controls elections, bribes legislators, purchases legislature, not of necessity by open bribery, but just as truly and more effectively by making it the interest of electors and legislators to serve the interests of capital. Says Wendell Phillips: "In combining, perpetual, legalized private wealth, lies our danger to-day."<br />

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But what makes government corrupt to-day? Is it not the power of money amassed in a few private hands? Is it not this that corrupts our parties, controls elections, bribes legislators, purchases legislature, not of necessity by open bribery, but just as truly and more effectively by making it the interest of electors and legislators to serve the interests of capital. Says Wendell Phillips: "In combining, perpetual, legalized private wealth, lies our danger to-day."<br />

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rich men of this land are "our dangerous class." Newport and Saratoga, Lenox and Wall street, are the centres of our social and national corruption. Under Socialism, where all had a competence and none a superfluity, the cause of corrupt government would be largely removed. Public business, too, can always be better examined and controlled than private business. Even as it is to day, '''government is purity itself''' beside the corruption and trickery of the private Western Union Telegraph Company, and most other private corporations.<br />

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rich men of this land are "our dangerous class." Newport and Saratoga, Lenox and Wall street, are the centres of our social and national corruption. Under Socialism, where all had a competence and none a superfluity, the cause of corrupt government would be largely removed. Public business, too, can always be better examined and controlled than private business. Even as it is to day, '''government is purity itself''' beside the corruption and trickery of the private Western Union Telegraph Company, and most other private corporations.<br />