{"author":"Thomas More","author_id":"Thomas+More","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no harm; they do so for no other reason except that they are rich, knowing full well that they are so mean and tightfisted that they will certainly never give them one red cent during their whole lives.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["ethics-and-moral-philosophy","philosophy","wealth"],"id":13322,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["compassion","good-nature","heart","kindness","mankind"],"id":22209,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for a healthy society was equal distribution of goods - which I suspect is impossible under capitalism. For, when everyone's entitled to get as much for himself as he can, all available property, however much there is of it, is bound to fall into the hands of a small minority, which means that everyone else is poor.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["capitalism","humanism","inequality","more"],"id":26179,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["clothing","fashion","humorous","renaissance"],"id":33711,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?","author":"Thomas More","tags":["justice"],"id":64712,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"Another kind of bodily pleasure is that which results from an undisturbed and vigorous constitution of body, when life and active spirits seem to actuate every part. This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight; and though this pleasure does not so powerfully affect us, nor act so strongly on the senses as some of the others, yet it may be esteemed as the greatest of all pleasures; and almost all the Utopians reckon it the foundation and basis of all the other joys of life, since this alone makes the state of life easy and desirable, and when this is wanting, a man is really capable of no other pleasure.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["health","life","pleasure"],"id":68062,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["fiction","humanism","political-philosophy"],"id":86994,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["catholic","catholicism","christ","christian","christianity","death","deathbed","regret"],"id":103128,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thomas More","tags":["education","manners","politics","punishment","scapegoats","thieves"],"id":123677,"author_id":"Thomas+More"},{"text":"We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?","author":"Thomas More","tags":["compassion","inspirational"],"id":144925,"author_id":"Thomas+More"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}