Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

Rope

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Right and wrong Good and evil Morality Middle class values

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Brandon

Actor

John Dall

Source

Rope

Genre

Psychological thriller (film) Thriller (film) Psychological thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Nature of history
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Harry Lime
Actor
Orson Welles
Source
The Third Man
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

Another quote about Morality

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