The quotations of

Thomas More

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher

1478–1535

9 quotes, most often on Government and Money.

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.
Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)
- Forgiveness
I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.
Thomas More’s Account, in a letter to his daughter Margaret Roper, of his Second Interrogation
- Life & Death
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause
Utopia (1516), Book II (3 of 4)In context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.
Utopia (1516), Book II (3 of 4)In context
- War & Peace
Your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns
Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Animals
- Economics
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?
Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Education
- Justice
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds.
Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
As long as there is any property, and while money is the standard of all other things, I cannot think that a nation can be governed either justly or happily
Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Government
- Money
I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends
Utopia (1516), Book II (4 of 4)In context
- Government
- Money

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