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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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
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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.
