Thomas More Quotes

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

To save all we must risk all.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

They lose least who have least to lose.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Change takes courage.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

I'm dangerous because I have nothing to lose.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

The present order is the disorder of the future.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.