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 employe… - Thomas More

As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a conspiracy of the rick, who while protesting their interest in the common good pursue their own interests and stop at no trick and deception to secure their ill-gotten possessions, to pay as little as possible for the labor that produces their wealth and so force its makers to accept the nearest thing to nothing. They contrive rules for securing and assuring these tidy profits for the rich in the name of the common good, including of course the poor, and call them laws!

And though no man have anything [in Utopia], yet every man is rich. For what can be more rich than to live joyfully and merrily without all grief and pensiveness, not caring for his own living . . . ?

Ahlak felsefesinde, onlar da bizim bilginlerimizle aynı sorunlar üzerinde durmaktadırlar. Onlar da gerek insanın ruhunda ve bedeninde, gerek dış dünyada onu mutlu edebilecek şeyleri ararlar. Onlar da şunu sormaktadırlar kendi kendilerine: Acaba iyi dediğimiz şey hem ruhun, hem bedenin isteklerini mi karşılar, yoksa yalnız ruhun isteklerini mi? Onlar da erdem ve zevk üstüne tartışırlar. Ama asıl tartıştıkları sorun, insan mutluluğunun bir yek ya da birçok koşulunu aramaktır.