"In order for a war to be..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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“Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.”
“Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.”
“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
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“Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.”
“When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.”
“Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.”
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“It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good”
“I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.”
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”