Pete Quigley

“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

“Well . . . I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

-Robert Bolt.
A Man for All Seasons”
― Robert Bolt, [(A Man for All Seasons)] [Author: Robert Bolt] published on

“Equally, they are amazed that anyone can be so mad as to think of himself of nobler stock just because he is clothed in finer wool. However finely spun the wool, a sheep wore it first, and remained just a sheep.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes