Originally posted by Catknight:
"The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person--every person--needs: namely, loving personal concern." - Pope Benedict XVI
That sounds like a prepared speech. There's no ring of honesty. Maybe because it wasn't originally in English?
(my own version)
"You give to the State believing that a bureaucracy can guarantee your happiness. But what we need, what everyperson needs, is not something a bureacracy can give us.
We need love, we need to know someone cares for us, we need to know there are people who will hold on to us when we reach out to them.
A bureacracy cannot give you that."