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Thread #38428   Message #540747
Posted By: GUEST,Al T
03-Sep-01 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: McCarthyism ... were you there?
Subject: A Man for All Seasons
An earlier poster, Don Firth, referred to a piece of dialogue from "A Man for All Seasons." I also have a favorite line from the same work that is appropriate here.

When Thomas More, the lone dissenter, is asked by the group to change his vote to make their ruling unanimous; he is told it would be best if he joined them "for company."

He replied in effect: "Yes, and when all of you go to heaven for voting your consciences, and I got to hell for not voting mine, will you join me...for company?"

Ah, the pitfalls of peer pressure in society.