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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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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You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.
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Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
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In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
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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.
