Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Justice, Looks, Unjust

• Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Mother, Justice, Mercy

• 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.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Powerful, War

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

• Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Justice, Catholic

  THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Philosophical, Justice

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Justice Of God, Baptism

• Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Positive, Powerful, Men

• Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Justice, Wells

• It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thanksgiving, Passion, Justice

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