The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
THOMAS MOREThe most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
More Thomas More Quotes
-
-
What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORE -
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
THOMAS MORE -
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
THOMAS MORE -
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
THOMAS MORE -
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORE -
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORE -
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 -
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
THOMAS MORE -
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
THOMAS MORE -
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MORE -
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
THOMAS MORE -
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
THOMAS MORE -
He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MORE -
Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MORE -
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
THOMAS MORE -
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
THOMAS MORE -
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
THOMAS MORE -
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MORE -
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
THOMAS MORE -
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORE -
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE -
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
THOMAS MORE -
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE -
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
THOMAS MORE -
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
THOMAS MORE -
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
THOMAS MORE