Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The world is soaked with mutual blood, and when individuals commit homicide, it is a crime; it is called a virtue when it is done in the name of the state. Impunity is acquired for crimes not by reason of innocence but by the magnitude of the cruelty.
Cyprian of Carthage, To Donatus (c. 246), 6 in Saint Cyprian: Treatises, trans. and ed. Roy. J Deferrrari, The Fathers of the Church. A New Translation: Volume 36 (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1958), p. 12.
Cyprian of Carthage, To Donatus (c. 246), 6 in Saint Cyprian: Treatises, trans. and ed. Roy. J Deferrrari, The Fathers of the Church. A New Translation: Volume 36 (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1958), p. 12.