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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have always liked these quotations from Thomas More I came across in my reading this afternoon
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.
― Thomas More, Utopia
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.
― Thomas More, Utopia
and
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
― Thomas More, Selected Writings
there is nothing more inglorious than that glory that is gained by war
― Thomas More, Utopia
― Thomas More, Utopia
for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or, at best, is employed in things that are of no use to the public, should live in great luxury and splendour upon what is so ill acquired, and a mean man, a carter, a smith, or a ploughman, that works harder even than the beasts themselves, and is employed in labours so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs?
― Thomas More, Utopia
― Thomas More, Utopia
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
― Thomas More, Utopia
― Thomas More, Utopia
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I have always liked these quotations from Thomas More I came across in my reading this afternoon (Original Post)
ashling
Jun 2018
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)1. Insightful comments. Still valid after how many yrs?
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)2. As chancellor he was burning heretics.
chaplain_M
(48 posts)4. And it earned him sainthood from the Catholic church!
I always wondered why the Thomas More Society, which claims to champion religious liberty, would name itself after a government official who burned people alive for their religious beliefs.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)3. One of my favorite quotes
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thank you for sharing these!