Absence Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Government Justice Sovereignty
“For, you see, in the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law. — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
