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English Lawyer, Judge, Social Philosopher, Author, Statesman, and Noted Renaissance Humanist
: Venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, he was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #19 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Class Warfare and The State
“Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, 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 pretense of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please.”
Source: "Utopia," by Thomas More, 1516. Book 2, Of the Religions of the Utopians.
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