Top 22 Thomas More Utopia Quotes
#1. I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
Harold Pinter
#2. Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.
Thomas Hoving
#3. It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
Thomas More
#4. But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.
Thomas Moore
#6. Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.
Loretta Lynn
#7. The change of the word does not alter the matter
Thomas More
#8. I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
Henry Rollins
#9. There were some low moments out there on the road tonight - abandonment and what's the point? - but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.
Chris Kraus
#10. To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
Ethan Hawke
#11. We live in a cruel world, Isabel," he says, without looking at me. "I am only a man, and will not always live up to your expectations. And to me, that is a painful reality. But we must never be cruel to one another. Let there be peace between us.
Sylvia Bambola
#12. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#14. All things appear incredible to us, as they differ more or less from our own manners.
- Utopia, Bk 2. (1516)
Thomas More
#15. I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.
Jude Law
#16. Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
John Waters
#17. If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.
Thomas Reed
#18. Whatever you speak about is what you create more of. So choose to talk about the best possible scenarios, the easiest way to do something, or how you've grown and learned from an experience. When
Doreen Virtue
#19. The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22
Thomas Merton
#20. In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
Ivan Turgenev
#21. It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.
Sister Souljah
#22. I cannot perfectly agree to everything he has related. However, there are many things in the commonwealth of Utopia that I rather wish, than hope, to see followed in our governments.
Thomas More
