For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.

-Thomas More

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For If You Suffer Your People To

Thomas More

For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.

Topic

People

Suffering

Thieves

If We Lived In A State Where Virtue Was Profitable, Common Sense Would Make Us Saintly. But Since We See That Avarice, Anger, Pride And Stupidity Commonly Profit Far Beyond Charity, Modesty, Justice And Thought, Perhaps We Must Stand Fast A Little, Even At The Risk Of Being Heroes.

Trust

Betrayal

Hero