"The end justifies the means, when the end is good and the means are not evil in themselves."

"As regards the last point, whether a woman is bound to obey her husband, it must be said that a woman is bound to obey her husband in those things which pertain to the ordering of the household, and t…"

"All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me."

"The state, therefore, which is bound to safeguard the complete well-being of its citizens, would be justified in putting such a man [a heretic] to death, removing him permanently from among men to who…"

"The killing of an innocent person is a greater sin than the killing of a guilty person."