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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Thomas Aquinas
Justice, Looks, Unjust

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

Thomas Aquinas
Mother, Justice, Mercy

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Thomas Aquinas
Peace, Justice, Catholic
THOMAS AQUINAS (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas
Friendship, Philosophical, Justice
Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

Thomas Aquinas
Powerful, Justice, Wells

It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

Thomas Aquinas
Thanksgiving, Passion, Justice

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