Love & Passion Quote by Liam Neeson

Neeson’s line lands with the bemused force of someone discovering the fine print of modern America: the culture sells itself as sexually liberated, while the law book quietly preserves a Puritan aftertaste. The casual throat-clearing opener, "But, you know", is doing strategic work. It signals a conversational, almost reluctant incredulity, as if he’s not trying to prosecute anyone - just pointing at a civic contradiction so obvious it becomes funny, then unsettling.

The intent isn’t to moralize about sex; it’s to expose how "progress" often exists more in branding than in statutes. By stacking "still" three times, Neeson makes time the real antagonist. These laws aren’t presented as active instruments of control so much as artifacts that refuse to die, and that’s the point: a society can change its habits faster than it updates its authority. The mention of "argument" hints at contemporary fights over privacy, contraception, abortion, and queer rights - the broader legal ecosystem where old sexual prohibitions can be revived, weaponized, or selectively enforced.

There’s also a cultural outsider’s edge. As an Irish actor who has spent decades inside Hollywood’s myth machine, Neeson is attuned to the gap between the America on screen and the America in the courthouse. The subtext is a warning: tolerance that relies on custom rather than law is fragile. A crime that’s "still" on the books is a permission slip waiting for the right political mood.