Skip to content

The dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater license in wickedness; while those who are put under them in service are not hurt except by their own iniquity.

— Augustine of Hippo

Another quote →

Topics

Slavery

More quotes by Augustine of Hippo

Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

What, then, does He say? "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

All Augustine of Hippo quotes →

You may also like

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Abraham Lincoln

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Abraham Lincoln

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Augustine of Hippo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.