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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 #3 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Society and Tradition
“It is also a great folly to be taken with outward marks of respect, which signify nothing: for what true or real pleasure can one man find in another's standing bare, or making legs to him? Will the bending another man's knees give ease to yours?”
Source: "Utopia," by Thomas More, 1516. Book 2, Of the Traveling of the Utopians.
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