Thomas More Utopia Quotes

253 quotes from thomas more.

Thomas more utopia quotes. Discourse on utopia quotes utopus even at his first arriving and entering upon the land which was to become utopia forthwith obtaining the victory over the natives caused fifteen miles space of uplandish ground where the sea had no passage to be cut and digged up. Thomas more the utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel when he can behold a star or the sun. Search all of sparknotes search. Read a brief overview of the work or chapter by chapter summaries.

And so brought the sea round about the land. Thomas more quote from utopia a pretty face may be enough to catch a man but it takes character and good nature to hold him how can anyone be silly enough to think himself better than other people because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. Arguably one of the first books to invent an imaginary world thomas more s utopia describes the travels of one man raphael hythloday to an undiscovered island that he considers to be the best country on earth. Nothing more inglorious than that glory that is gained by war military pg.

The way to heaven is the same from all places and he that had no grave had the heavens still over him. Or if that cannot be done to take so severe a revenge on those that have injured them that they may be terrified from doing the like for the time to come. Utopia quotes showing 1 30 of 181 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 sir thomas more utopia. Utopia was written by sir thomas more and published in 1516.

The only design of the utopian in war is to obtain that by force which if it had been granted them in time would have prevented the war. 20 of the best book quotes from utopia 1 those that are found guilty of theft among them are bound to make restitution to the owner and not as it is in other places to the prince for they reckon that the prince has no more right to the stolen goods than the thief. 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 a pretty face may be enough to catch a man but it takes character and good nature to hold him and how can anyone be silly enough to think himself better than other people.