Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Heroes come along when you need them.

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Man will ever stand in need of man.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

I support anything that we can do, including investigations or otherwise, to protect Americans from foreign interference in all of our good work that we need to do in the United States, whether it be our elections, whether it be our businesses, whether it be our electric grids.

What the rest of the world knows about Mexico is what they see on films and the bad news they see on TV. We need to make films that are worthy of who we really are as Mexicans. We also need to make cinema that reflects the diversity in the region, so that Americans and Europeans know who Mexicans are, who Salvadorians are, who Cubans are, etc. We need to do it, and all we really need is support because we have the talent.