Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

As slavery is a moral evil, it ought to be removed as speedily as possible, and trust the consequences of such duty in the hands of unerring Providence.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

I'm just a human being who would not accept being wronged.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.