George Lucas Quotes

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Evil changes everybody!

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Corruption is the virus that has eroded the healthy body of the party and the state. If we lower our guard and let it run wild, our party will be ruined, the people's power will be lost, and the great cause of social modernization will be forced off track.

Evil will destroy itself.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height