A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

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Topic

Lies

Speaker

The Blue Fairy

Actor

Evelyn Venable

Source

Pinocchio

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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Another quote from the 1940s

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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Topic
Moral relativism Moral theory Morality
Speaker
Alfred North Whitehead
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

Another quote from 1940

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden

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Topic
Nature of evil Evil

Author

W.H. Auden
Source
Herman Melville
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.