Good thing Quote by William Donaldson

“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.”

— Grant Allen

“but then, you know, they have the recollection of very recent suffering fresh upon them. What they may become, when that fades away, is…

— Charles Dickens

“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored…

— Tom Bingham

“In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,…

— Charles Dickens

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that…

— Paul Valery

“An Englishman’s duty is to secure for himself for ever reasonable clothing, a clean shirt a day, a couple of mutton-chops grilled without condiments,…

— Ford Madox Ford

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

— Martin Freeman

“In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about race provided…

— Adam Hochschild

“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.”

— Harold Edmund Stearns

“Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell