Park Chan-wook Quotes
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
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Nietzsche … does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.
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I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
