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[The following passage, spoken by Thomas More while held prisoner in the Tower of London, comes from Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons. It opened in London in 1960 at the Globe Theatre and later on Broadway, enjoying both critical and financial success. It was subsequently made into a multi-Academy Award-winning 1966 film.]

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we’d live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all. . . why then perhaps we must stand fast a little—even at the risk of being heroes.

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