Money has a certain kind of amnesty.
I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
