Samuel West Quotes

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

I even opposed the death penalty for the man who killed my brother .

From vengeance, none are exempt.

Justice is inextricably linked to revenge, which is both morally right and a deeply internalized instinct as innate to man as breathing, having sex, falling in love, and making war.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

I would not have been interested in doing just a revenge film simply because I have seen so many revenge films right from Clint Eastwood films to Amitabh Bachchan's 'Zanjeer', 'Sholay' and 'Ghayal' and various variants of them.