Quote #1
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
More from Hartley Shawcross
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- Let us not foist this humbug on the world.
- All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.
- I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it r…
- I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.
- Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in y…
- Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials, I, tog…
- The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.