Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)
The law is not a “light” for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)
If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
His armory would quickly be empty.
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)