Sir Thomas More’s 16th Century definition of government:
“a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.”
Right on, Thomas.
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Sir Thomas More’s 16th Century definition of government:
“a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.”
Right on, Thomas.
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:)) in case that wretched Tudor Religious Rage took over!! 😉
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Plus ca change plus, la meme chose…. or something…prolly spelled wrong…..
Do you think he sounded bitter or enraged…..?
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I don’t know 🙄 It might just be sad :??: I’d need to read more about him… but then, it’s difficult to get a proper rounded picture, what with the Tudor religious rages, and now people re-thinking him according to 21st century values :no:
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I know next to nothing about him I’m ashamed to say 😳
‘Tudor Religious rages’ :)) I like that!
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More was passionately Catholic, and because he refused to chuck the Pope to satisfy Henry, he came to a very nasty end :no: The Catholic church has made him a saint.
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ah….. They absolutely would make him a saint…. 😉 well I guess he was a follower of Christ…… and a martyr……
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It seems to be quite difficult to find out what he was really like. He seems to have been a real mixture. He believed in the education of women, and his daughter was very clever and highly educated. He seems to have been loved and loathed in equal measure … 🙄
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I think I saw a prog on the tv about him because that all rings a bell. Excellent chap 😉
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He wrote ‘Utopia’ .. all this makes me want to go back and find out more about him, but not this week, I have family staying! I have read Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, seeing the times through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, who seems according to her characterisation to have loathed and distrusted More …
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Having looked at portraits of both Cromwell and More…. I’d say Cromwell looks like a grim little piggy and More looks civilised and more appealing. Slightly……. 😉
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I think I would prefer More as a neighbour … provided I was Catholic of course 😉
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Thomas More predicted that iron would be of more worth than gold and diamonds. The world’s economic wealth is today based on iron.in either case neither have produced happiness.
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Very true.
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Hundreds of years later and still true! Governments are not facing the truth nor are we ‘all in this together’. The gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider. :??:
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Yes it is, and with the next round of welfare cuts it will be worse still.
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Not much has changed, has it? One day Gillyk, but we won’t be around.
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Nope – we can leave it to the next generation to wring their hands and ask why we never learn the lessons of history :no:
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What is , was and ever shall be by the sound of it 🙄
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One day … !! :>
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nothing ever changes.
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Did he not die on his way to attend, by command, Henry VIII’s Court, already deprived of his own wealth. Not knowing for certain, I wonder if it is this, that generated the observation.
…and yes, many a true word.
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He was devoutly Catholic, fiercely anti-Protestant and refused to succumb to Henry’s insistence that he become the head of the church in defiance of the Pope. He finished up in the Tower, followed by hanging, drawing and quartering. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic Church: recent studies have sought to review the evidence.
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Just realised, I was mixing up More with Cardinal Wolsey. But, then, Henry was bound to have more than one of everything. 😉
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:)) He needed a constant stream of replacements …
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….And how!
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He was lucky not to be swent to The Tower….:roll: ;)x
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Escaped by a close shave … 😉
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That’s the sad part.xxxxx
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Thomas More wrote ‘Utopia’ of course – presumably because he’s seen power at its most corrupt.
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As a good friend and confidant of King Henry and, as Chancellor, More was in a unique position to know ALL of the ‘ins and outs’ of Monarchy and Government.
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He certainly was, and it was not an edifying sight.
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Yes, spot on.xxxxx
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Nothing changes, it would seem!
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