For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.


The City of God (ed. 1871)

Augustine of Hippo Quotes

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then...

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then...

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then...

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then...