"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
― Saint Augustine
Topic(s):
Government
More From Saint Augustine
- "Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."
- "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
- "My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
More In Government
- "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."― Plato
- "I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I’m not a believer in laissez-faire."― Vince Cable
- "I didn’t always want to be a dad."― Liam Gallagher