Max Mosley on roleplaying:
“It’s just more - fun is probably the wrong word - but it’s much better if
accompanied by something which seems to justify what is going on.”
Mosley on his big secret:
“I’ve been doing that for 45 years and there’s never been the slightest hint
of that coming out and, if it hadn’t been for bribery and illegal acts, this
wouldn’t have come out.”
Clip from woman speaking during the orgy played in court:
“But we are the Aryan race, the blondes.”
Mosley in response:
“It’s a throwaway line in a general scenario. If that’s the only thing you can
point to, it’s not much, is it?”
Mosley on Nazi fantasies:
“I can think of few things more unerotic than Nazi role play.”
Mark Warby QC for the News of the World on Mosley losing his right to
privacy:
“The law draws a line and the reason is that sadomasochistic cruelty is
contrary to civilised values and is corrupting of those involved.
“Given the nature and circumstances of the activities in this case there is no
reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to the information which is
the subject of the claim
“The NoW will assert that it was true to say that the orgy had a Nazi flavour
and that this was no accident either. It was designed and intended to do so.”
Mosley on the pain of being spanked until he bleeds:
“You have to understand that people who do this a lot become very sensitive
and bleed very easily and the pain involved in that, compared to all sorts
of things, is very modest.
“I’d far rather do that than jump into a cold swimming pool.
“The level of violence is minimal, the drawing of blood a little like cutting
yourself shaving.
“When you think of piercings, tattoos - never mind violent sports - it’s
laughable, absolutely laughable to say this is criminal wounding - fanciful
and laughable.”
James Price, QC for Max Mosley, on what is depraved anyway?
“Any form of sexual activity except the straightforward missionary position
between young, nubile and pretty people was apt to provoke an expression of
distaste if thought about too closely.
“It is not because it is wrong or immoral, still less because it is
disgusting.
“It is because tastes in these matters differ and because disgust can be quite
near the surface when thinking about sorts of sexual behaviour which one
does not fancy oneself.”
Mosley's QC on the News of the World as a Peeping Tom:
“We say this hyperbole is quite absurd as a description of what actually
happened.
“It does not come well from the News of the World. The role of the News of the
World as Peeping Tom publishing for the amusement of the millions sits
uncomfortably with its self-appointed role as arbiter of the nation’s
morals.
“Everyone knows that the News of the World lives by sexual titillation.
Everyone knows that the pontificating is just hypocritical. It would be
funny if it were not so terribly harmful to the News of the World’s victims.”
Mosely on public interest:
“If I was caught drink-driving, or grossly speeding, I think that would be,
but things of the nature discussed are, I think, completely out of the scope
of my work and have no connection to it whatsoever.”
Mosley’s QC on S&M:
“Most people probably think S&M behaviour - spanking, bondage,
whipping, role play like doctors and nurses, sheikhs and harems, guards and
prisoners - is harmless and private and even funny.”
Mosley’s QC on the family history:
“This trial is not a forum to debate the evils or otherwise of Sir Oswald
Mosley. The only point is that the sins of the father cannot justly be
visited on Mr Mosley, who was born at a time when the British Union of
Fascists was simply a memory and when Britain was already at war with Nazi
Germany.”
Mosley on his fascist family history:
“All my life, I have had hanging over me my antecedents, my parents, and the
last thing I want to do in some sexual context is be reminded of it.
“I wouldn’t consider my parents to be Nazi but there is obviously a link.”
Mosley’s QC on picking on Mosley:
“If it had been about Bernie Ecclestone, it would not have been a ’sick Nazi
orgy’."
Mosley’s QC on privacy as a human right:
“A person’s sexual life is a most intimate part of his or her private life.
“Every ordinary human being expects the privacy of their sexual life to be
respected and would be outraged if it was not. To peep in on people engaging
in sexual activity is disgusting.
“To hide a listening device or hidden camera in someone’s bedroom in order to
spy on them having sex violates a basic human taboo. There would have to be
serious public interest of a very high order to justify doing this.
“This is not merely the proper human reaction of everyone who is not of a
disturbed mind. It is of course recognised by the law, the European Court of
Human Rights and by the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct.”
Mosley on his family:
“It had more of an effect on my family than it did on me.
“My wife and I have been married for 48 years and together for more than 50 -
we met as teenagers - and she never knew of this aspect of my life, so that
headline in the newspaper was completely, totally devastating for her and
there is nothing that I can say that can ever repair that.
“Also, for my two sons, I don’t think there is anything worse for a son than
to see in a newspaper, particularly one like the News of the World, pictures
of the kind they printed.
“I can think of nothing more undignified or humiliating than that. If I put
myself in their position - to see my father in that position, I would find
devastating.
Mosley’s QC on British journalism:
“Nothing can undo what has been done to the claimant. Nothing can excuse the
failure to give him the opportunity to put his side of the story, a matter
of simple fairness.
“The fact that the newspaper decided not to give the claimant that opportunity
so as to prevent the claimant from bringing the matter before the court for
the court to decide whether it was right for it to be published, that is a
matter, we say, which brings shame on British journalism.”
Mosley on the morality of S&M:
“I fundamentally disagree with the suggestion that any of this is depraved,
fundamentally disagree with the fact that it is immoral.
“I think it is a perfectly harmless activity provided it is between consenting
adults who want to do it, are of sound mind, and it is in private.”
