José de Paiva Netto
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José Simões de Paiva Netto (born 2 March 1941) is a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, composer, poet, and President of the Brazilian Non-Governmental Organization Legião da Boa Vontade — LBV (Legion of Good Will — LGW),
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- The Human Being, with his Eternal Spirit, must be in the center of the Economy, since he is the generator of all progress. Without him, there is no capital.
- To certain effects of globalization that promote misery, we interpose the universalization of Fraternal Love, as a strong instrument of reaction to the pseudo fatalism of poverty.
- There is no good government as long as Mankind is evil.
- Democracy is the regime of responsibility.
- Our political party is Brazil.
- If it is difficult, let us commence now. The important thing is to start.
- When the territory is not defended by the good ones, the bad ones make 'just' the victory of injustice.(...)
- Difficulties are God’s prizes to our intelligence.
- Armed and Civil Forces, they are all Brazil!
- Racism is an obscenity.
- The miracle that God expects of Mankind is that they learn to love each other and themselves.
- It is necessary for us to live the unity in diversity in order for us to overcome adversity.
- Religion is to improve Human Beings, integrating them in their Creator, through the exercise of Fraternity between His creatures.
- Every day is the day for us to renew our destiny.
- If there are dark nights, there are also radiant mornings.
- Youths are the future in the present! Let us believe in them.
- There is only one Race, the Universal Race of the children of God.
- Hope is not the last thing that dies. Hope never dies!
- Humbleness has to be courageous.
- Hating is not being democratic.
- The Economy lacks Solidarity. The ideal model of Economy is the Economy of Human Solidarity.
- When there is poverty of love, there is plenty of hate. And the result of this is terrestrial misery. A rich person is one that loves.
- Jesus is, above all, a generous and very modern idea in march that needs to be studied and lived by all the anti-sectarian souls, freed from prejudices and taboos. In fact, the Spirit of a free Man does not accept handcuffs.
- The Christian religion is not the school of idleness.
- Whoever trusts Jesus does not waste time!
- God is Spirit, consequently His Policy is spiritual; therefore, at the end of the most correct philosophical reasoning, even matter is Spirit. Einstein presented Mankind with a glimpse of this reality when he wrote the famous equation: E = mc2.
