Saint Augustine Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Justice

  "Majority of one". Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Peace, Government, Justice

• Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

  Saint Augustine

  People, Justice, Republic

  SAINT AUGUSTINE (1952). “THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE”

• Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Cities, People

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Punishment, Justice

• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

• What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

  Saint Augustine

  Justice, Kingdoms, Gang

• Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Men, Order

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.478, Catholic Way Publishing

• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Justice

• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Government, Justice, Mind

• Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Taken, Justice

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

• You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

  Saint Augustine

  Justice, Our Love

• Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Law, Justice

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.54, CUA Press

• Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Justice, Unjust

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