The late Pope Francis once said that an effective tactic for undermining elements of the civic good was to “empty great words of their meaning or to manipulate them”:
“Nowadays, what do certain words like democracy, freedom, justice or unity really mean? They have been bent and shaped to serve as tools for domination, as meaningless tags that can be used to justify any action.”
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