{"id":37924,"date":"2017-04-10T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37924"},"modified":"2017-03-31T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:41:35","slug":"a-man-for-all-seasons-giving-the-devil-the-benefit-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/a-man-for-all-seasons-giving-the-devil-the-benefit-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>A Man For All Seasons<\/em> &#8211; Giving the Devil the Benefit of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUqytjlHNIM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on Aug 8, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Robert Bolt&#8217;s classic <em>A Man for All Seasons<\/em> (1966), directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield as Thomas More, the famous English lawyer, philosopher, and Renaissance humanist.<\/p>\n<p>Alice More: &#8220;Arrest him!&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;For what?&#8221;<br \/>\nAlice More: &#8220;He&#8217;s dangerous!&#8221;<br \/>\nMargaret More: &#8220;Father, that man&#8217;s bad!&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;There&#8217;s no law against that.&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliam Roper: &#8220;There is: God&#8217;s law!&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;Then God can arrest him.&#8221;<br \/>\nAlice More: &#8220;While you talk, he&#8217;s gone.&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliam Roper: &#8220;So, now you&#8217;d give the Devil the benefit of law!&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliam Roper: &#8220;Yes! I&#8217;d cut down every law in England to do that!&#8221;<br \/>\nSir Thomas More: &#8220;Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned &#8217;round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast &mdash; man&#8217;s laws, not God&#8217;s! And if you cut them down, and you&#8217;re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I&#8217;d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety&#8217;s sake.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Aug 8, 2012 From Robert Bolt&#8217;s classic A Man for All Seasons (1966), directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield as Thomas More, the famous English lawyer, philosopher, and Renaissance humanist. 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