Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.
If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

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