A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. - Robert Bolt
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.
- Robert Bolt
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
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. - Robert Bolt
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. - Robert Bolt
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! - Robert Bolt
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. - Robert Bolt
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists. - Robert Bolt
I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This countr… - Robert Bolt
Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This countr…
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. - Robert Bolt
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