Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
Thomas MoreTags: politics philosophy public-office
Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.
Thomas MorePride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
Thomas MoreTags: philosophy virtue sin pride
Por ejemplo, los utopianos no pueden entender por qué alguien debería estar tan fascinado por el brillo opaco de un pequeño pedazo de piedra cuando tiene para mirar todas las estrellas del cielo, o cómo alguien puede ser tan tonto de creerse mejor que otros porque sus ropas están hechas con un hilado de lana más fino. Después de todo, esa ropa tan fina fua alguna vez llevada por una oveja, la que nunca dejó por eso de ser algo más que una oveja
Thomas MoreSex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
Thomas Morethere is nothing more inglorious than that glory that is gained by war
Thomas More[The Utopians] marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble, when he has a star, or the sun itself, to look at. They are amazed at the foolishness of any man who considers himself a nobler fellow because he wears clothing of specially fine wool. No matter how delicate the thread, they say, a sheep wore it once, and still was nothing but a sheep… They do not understand why a dunderhead with no more brains than a post, and who is as depraved as he is foolish, should command a great many wise and good people simply because he happens to have a great pile of gold.
Thomas MoreAn absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas MoreSir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen. He shares his feast day, June 22 on the Catholic calendar of saints, with Saint John Fisher, the only Bishop during the English Reformation to maintain his allegiance to the Pope. More was added to the Anglican Churches' calendar of saints in 1980. Source: Wikipedia
Thomas MoreThey wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal. That a man of lead, who has no more sense than a log of wood, and is as bad as he is foolish, should have many wise and good men to serve him, only because he has a great heap of that metal...
Thomas MoreTags: wealth gold riches wise-men
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