Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
Ayn RandThe end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
Ayn RandThey proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.
Ayn RandIt's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.
Ayn Rand