Niels Arden Oplev Quotes

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

Niels Arden Oplev

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• I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Moral
  • More
  • Neighbors

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • May
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Man
  • Black

• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Challenge

• The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Strong
  • Violence
  • Deep

• In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Fear
  • Powerful
  • Violence

• The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Moral
  • Animal
  • Slavery

• When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

  

  Ellen Key
  • True
  • Nature
  • Society

• The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Long
  • Home
  • War

• We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Country
  • Why
  • Future

• There is more equity now in movies and TV, although I think its mostly because of changing demographics. It's not a moral proposition. It's good business. Shows about people of all colors are making money.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • World
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • History
  • Desire
  • Violence

• I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Countries
  • Hopeful
  • Traveld

• Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Team

• 'Saw' really was like a student film for me; we expected it to go straight to video. I never expected anyone to see that film, and then it becomes one of the most successful horror franchises.

  

  James Wan

• I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Danger

• Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
  • Violence
  • Moral
  • Examine