By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the Social Assistance State leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients, and which are accompanied by an enormous increase in spending.
Pope John Paul II – born Karol Wojtyła, Holy Father 1978-2005 (1920-2005), from “Centesimus Annus” (1991), Quotations book 2006