Eunice Ying Ci

“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 change of the word does not alter the matter”
― 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

“But if one shall say, that by that law we are only forbid to kill any except when the laws of the land allow of it, upon the same grounds, laws may be made, in some cases, to allow of adultery and perjury: for God having taken from us the right of disposing either of our own or of other people’s lives, if it is pretended that the mutual consent of men in making laws can authorise man-slaughter in cases in which God has given us no example, that it frees people from the obligation of the divine law, and so makes murder a lawful action, what is this, but to give a preference to human laws before the divine?”
― Thomas More, Utopia