Bruce Campbell Quotes

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

The offence is, in some measure, to be tolerated in those who did it through ignorance, so it is to be rigorously punished in those who do not fear to sin knowingly

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.