Sentences with phrase «political decisions based on fear»
In a speech delivered at the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis denounced making political decisions based on fear, because fear «weakens and destabilizes us, destroys our psychological and spiritual defenses, and numbs us to the suffering of others,» he said.
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The debate over Scotland's future has, especially recently, served up the incongruous (and unromantic) image of a nation of «bean - counters» basing its decision about independence on the expected profitability of either outcome, yet calculating this expectation (on either side) off the back of political and economic assumptions that resemble nothing so much as declarations of blind fear or faith.