injustice and violence of states and robbers.
4. If justice is not respected, what are the states if not of the great bands of robbers? Because even bands of brigands what are they but small states? It is still a group of individuals is governed by the command of a leader, is bound by a social contract and the spoil is divided according to the law of the Convention. If the bandwidth increases with the addition of wicked men who have so perverted territories, establishing residences, occupying the city, subdues peoples, it assumes more clearly state the name granted to it by now in reality not by the decrease of the ambition of owning but more security with impunity. With the subtlety and truth at once answered in this way a pirate to Alexander the Great captured. The king asked that idea came to him in the head to infest the sea. And those with overt bravado: "The same to you for that infest the world, but I'm considered a pirate because I do it with a small ship, a captain because you do it with a large fleet.
4. If justice is not respected, what are the states if not of the great bands of robbers? Because even bands of brigands what are they but small states? It is still a group of individuals is governed by the command of a leader, is bound by a social contract and the spoil is divided according to the law of the Convention. If the bandwidth increases with the addition of wicked men who have so perverted territories, establishing residences, occupying the city, subdues peoples, it assumes more clearly state the name granted to it by now in reality not by the decrease of the ambition of owning but more security with impunity. With the subtlety and truth at once answered in this way a pirate to Alexander the Great captured. The king asked that idea came to him in the head to infest the sea. And those with overt bravado: "The same to you for that infest the world, but I'm considered a pirate because I do it with a small ship, a captain because you do it with a large fleet.
St. Augustine, The City of God, Book 4 °
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