Daily Inspiration Quote by Kenneth More

The line lands because it borrows the language of sport to describe a culture that no longer feels like it has referees. “Rules being rewritten as the game goes on” captures the specific kind of modern vertigo where norms change midstream: not just that society evolves, but that it does so without consensus, with everyone arguing about the score while the match is still underway. Then More adds the nastier image: “spectators invading the pitch.” The boundary between participant and onlooker collapses. It’s a neat pre-social-media metaphor for a world where commentary becomes action, where heckling can steer outcomes, where institutions feel crowded by people who don’t accept the premise of the game.

Kenneth More, an actor associated with steady, decency-coded British screen roles, isn’t performing intellectual cool here. He’s voicing a craving for reliability as an emotional survival strategy. The phrase “it is good to feel” is doing real work: he’s not claiming permanence exists, only that the sensation of it matters when everything else is in flux. That modesty is the subtext. It’s less manifesto than sigh.

The last clause - “some things and some people seem to stay just as they were” - is carefully hedged with “seem.” More understands that stability might be partly projection, a chosen illusion. But it’s an illusion with a purpose: in a chaotic public arena, we cling to familiar characters not because they’re flawless, but because they help the rest of the plot stay legible.