"Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private…"

"All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they sh…"

"You, the rich, how far will you push your frenzied greed? . . . When giving to the poor, you are not giving him what …"

"Not to share one’s wealth with the poor is to steal from them and to take away their livelihood. It is not our own go…"

"All possessions are by nature unrighteous when a man possesses them for personal advantage as being entirely his own,…"

"Every rich person is either a thief or the heir of a thief."

"What are then, tell me, the goods that you claim to possess? To what extent are they an essential part of your life? …"

"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

"In vain do they think themselves innocent who appropriate to their own use alone those goods which God gave in common…"

"Almost without exception, the early Christian Fathers whose teachings have come down to us spoke out fearlessly again…"