Peter Ustinov: Man

Peter Ustinov was English actor, writer, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God… or the Devil.”

Peter Ustinov

Captain Vere
Billy Budd (1962)

God

“It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.”

Peter Ustinov

Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)

“Claggert: We must serve the law, sir, or give up the right and privilege of service. It is only within that law that we may use our discretions according to our rank.
Captain Vere: You're so intelligent and so lucid for the rank you hold, Master At Arms.
Claggert: I thank you, sir.
Captain Vere: Yes, that's no flattery, Mr. Claggart. It's a melancholy fact. It's sad to see such qualities of mind bent to such a sorry purpose. What's the reason for it?
Claggert: I am what I am, sir. And what the world has made me.
Captain Vere: The world? The world demands that behind every peacemaker there be the gun, the gallows, the jail. Do you think it will always be so?
Claggert: I have no reason not to, sir.
Captain Vere: You live without hope?
Claggert: I live.
Captain Vere: But remember, Mr. Claggart, that even the man who wields the whip cannot defy the code we must obey and not be broken by it. That will be all.”

Peter Ustinov

Billy Budd (1962)

World , Sadness , Law , Hope

“Good-bye to you too ol' Rights of Man!”

Peter Ustinov

Bill Budd, as he is impressed into service aboard the warship HMS Avenger
Billy Budd (1962)

“I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your — politeness.”

Peter Ustinov

The Loser : A Novel (1960)

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