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Quotation from Utopia by Thomas More
“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?”
Utopia, Book I (Discourses of Raphael Hythloday), at Cardinal Morton's table, trans. Gilbert Burnet
The conclusion of Raphael's argument against hanging thieves.
Citation: "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, Utopia, Book I (Discourses of Raphael Hythloday), at Cardinal Morton's table, trans. Gilbert Burnet. (id utopia-q2)
Virtues: Justice
Portrait: Isola di Utopia Moro, Original uploader was Marcok at it.wikipedia, Public domain.
