Saint Augustine Quotes

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There is no sin but ignorance.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.