Eunice Ying Ci

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or, at best, is employed in things that are of no use to the public, should live in great luxury and splendour upon what is so ill acquired, and a mean man, a carter, a smith, or a ploughman, that works harder even than the beasts themselves, and is employed in labours so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs? ”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“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, Utopia

“... the way to heaven is the same from all places, and he that had no grave had the heavens still over him.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“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”
― Thomas More, Utopia