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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
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Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
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My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
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There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.
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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.
