Thomas Aquinas Quotes

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

Thomas Aquinas

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• Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Weakness
  • Chocolate
  • Belgian

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Choosing

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Lie
  • Cheat
  • Steal

• Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Director
  • Keep
  • Contact

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • Philosophy
  • Books

• When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Art
  • Man

• As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Government
  • Like
  • Back

• 'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Candy

• You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • History
  • Understanding

• 'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Death

• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Death
  • Day
  • Child

• Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

  

  Peter Jurasik
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Catholic

• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Love

• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

  

  Aristotle
  • God
  • Society
  • Law

• True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?

  

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Conscience

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

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Justice
  • Cruelty
  • Dissolution