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To all ideologies that seek to define the human person merely as a product of the state or social community, as a piece of wax to be shaped into the right kind of "citizen" to carry out the state's purposes, the Catholic conception of human worth marks an irrevocable and inalienable boundary around the human person, affirming that the individual always precedes the state and that the state must therefore understand itself as profoundly limited in what it can do in the name of progress. In contrast to all ideologies that seek to define the human person solipsistically, as islands of autonomous sovereignty with no underlying moral connection to other people, the Catholic conception of human worth reminds us that, as the poet John Donne wrote, no man is an island. The moral integrity of every one of us is vulnerable to the individual and communal actions of others, and that vulnerability cuts directly to the final integrity of our soul.”

- Evangelization and Ideology