Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Human law is imposed on the multitude, a part of which is composed of men imperfect in virtue. Thus all the vices from which the virtuous abstain are not punished by human law, but only the more grievous ones which most people can avoid, and especially those which can hurt others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be preserved. Thus homicide, theft and the like are prohibited by human law.
There is always a tendency of legislators to attempt to legislate morality. Many people used this quotation to question the religiously supported laws like blue laws, cursing, nudity and the like.
Thomas Aquinas, ~1225-1274, Catholic Saint & Italian Scholastic Philosopher, Summa Theologica
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This is one of the earliest examples of attempting to reduce crime by altering community norms.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
An old legal maxim: Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.
The speech was in the midst of a very bitter strike where goons and strikebreakers assaulted miners and a few miners resorted to violence.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. Among other things, he was a prominent proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of both the light of natural reason and the light of faith. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.
