Utopia Wealth Quotes

Then I said, "It is clear, my dear Raphael, that you seek neither wealth nor power" (1.13)

To make this hideous poverty worse, it exists side by side with wanton luxury. (1.20)

But as a matter of fact, my dear More, to tell you what I really think, wherever you have private property, and money is the measure of all things, it is hardly ever possible for a commonwealth to be governed justly or happily (1.38)

It seems to me that men cannot possibly live well where all things are in common [...] If the hope of gain does not spur him on, won't he rely on others, and become lazy? (1.40)

The doors [in Utopian houses] open easily and swing shut automatically—and so there is nothing private or exclusive. Every ten years they exchange the houses themselves by lot. (2.47)

Since [the Utopians] share everything equally, it follows that no one can ever be reduced to poverty or forced to beg. (2.61)

While they eat from earthenware dishes and drink from glass cups […] their chamber pots and all their humblest vessel […] are made of gold and silver. (2.63)

The Utopians are appalled at those people who practically worship a rich man. (2.65)

Speaking of false pleasure, what about those who pile up money, not for any real purpose, but just to sit and look at it? Is that true pleasure, or aren't they simply cheated by a show of pleasure? (2.72)

When I run over in my mind the various commonwealths flourishing today, so help me God, I can see in them nothing but a conspiracy of the rich, who are fattening up their own interests under the name and title of the commonwealth. (2.108)