Shocking Sayings
187 sayings found from the Medieval era
The natural order among men is that women should be subject to men.
The killing of an innocent person is a greater sin than the killing of a guilty person.
It is lawful to kill a man in self-defense, provided that one uses no more violence than is necessary.
Heretics, therefore, must be excommunicated and cut off from the Church, and, finally, delivered to the secular tribunal to be put to death.
If a man be a fornicator, or an adulterer, or a drunkard, or any such like, he is not thereby cut off from the Church, because such sins do not separate a man from the faith. But heresy does separate a man from the faith, and consequently from the Ch…
The Church has the power to excommunicate, and to deliver to the secular arm.
It is lawful to wage war, provided it be for a just cause, and by the authority of the sovereign.
It is lawful to kill an enemy in a just war.
Slavery is a natural institution, because some men are by nature slaves, and others are by nature masters.
A slave is an instrument of his master, and is his property.
It is lawful for a master to beat his slave, provided he does not kill him or maim him.
The children of slaves are slaves by birth.
If a man commits the sin of sodomy, he is to be put to death.
The sin against nature is the most grievous of sins.
The greater the good that is contemned, the greater the sin. But the good of the species is greater than the good of the individual. Therefore, the sin against nature, which is against the good of the species, is greater than the sin of fornication, …
It is worse to commit the sin of sodomy than to commit the sin of bestiality.
The act of generation is more noble than the act of nutrition.
It is not lawful for a man to have sex with his wife if she is unwilling.
But it is lawful for a husband to demand the marriage debt from his wife, even if she is unwilling, because she owes it to him by virtue of the marriage contract.
It is lawful to deceive the enemy in a just war.