:You got me in a vendetta kinda mood. You tell the angels in heaven you've never seen an evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Walken declares a vendetta and calls the victim singularly evil.
- In plain terms
- He tells angels they have never seen evil like the man they just killed.
- What can you take from it?
- Hatred can distort perception of others.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we judge evil?
- What drives vendettas?
Another view
It frames moral judgment in extreme terms.
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