A meme about something worth remembering.
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katsarisA meme, not like most others, on a thing worth remembering -- taken from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bellatrys.
From A Man For All Seasons, winner of the 1966 Oscar for Best Picture:
Lady Alice More:
Arrest him!
Sir Thomas More:
For what?
Lady Alice:
He's dangerous!
Will Roper:
For all we know he's a spy!
Margaret More:
Father, that man's bad!
More:
There's no law against that.
Roper:
There is - God's law!
More:
Then let God arrest him.
Lady Alice:
While you talk he's gone!
More:
And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law.
Roper:
So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More:
Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper:
Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
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!
Pass it on.
bellatrys.From A Man For All Seasons, winner of the 1966 Oscar for Best Picture:
Lady Alice More:
Arrest him!
Sir Thomas More:
For what?
Lady Alice:
He's dangerous!
Will Roper:
For all we know he's a spy!
Margaret More:
Father, that man's bad!
More:
There's no law against that.
Roper:
There is - God's law!
More:
Then let God arrest him.
Lady Alice:
While you talk he's gone!
More:
And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law.
Roper:
So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More:
Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper:
Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
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!
Pass it on.
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Date: 2004-06-15 11:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-20 05:49 pm (UTC)Haven't seen the film either, I'm afraid. But I liked the passage, so I thought to try and spread the meme.