Thomas More Quotes

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Class is more important than a game.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

All shall equal be. The Earl, the Marquis, and the Dook, The Groom, the Butler, and the Cook, The Aristocrat who banks with Coutts, The Aristocrat who cleans the boots.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

There is no more contemptible poison than power over one's fellow men.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

I know that men are not equal; nowhere on the earth or in Nature is there equality—there is variety .... The natural variety must be organized through the division and gradation of functions and work; no organization of men is possible without superiors and subordinates, but it must just be an organization, and not a privilege, not aristocratic coercion but mutual service.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

The great families have their privileges.

You have said that it is me killing you; now here are your masters coming … you will have to pull and shove wagons, but under me you never had to do this kind of thing. Now you be joyful because here are your future rulers.

In the history of the world, slavery has been and still is the normal condition of most men; all the great accumulations of property have been the result of slavery, and civilization was the result of property…. art, literature, science, architecture, beautiful women, and gentlemen of leisure all depend upon the forced labor of masses of ignorant men whom to make free would be a social crime.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.