Rufus King famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
To justify God's ways to man.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

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