Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Choosing a negative path can have lasting consequences on your future.
This quote emphasizes the idea that once a person chooses a path of darkness—symbolizing wrongdoing or negativity—it becomes a powerful force that shapes their life and future. It suggests that negative choices can consume an individual, leading to irreversible consequences and the domination of their fate by that darkness.
Themes
Dark PathDestinyConsequencesChoicesNegativity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a discussion about the impact of making poor life choices.
More from George Lucas
All quotes →When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
George LucasRead
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George LucasRead
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
George LucasRead
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
George LucasRead
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
George LucasRead
Similar quotes
The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics_x000D_ can become genocidal.
James OrbinskiRead
Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
Cormac MccarthyRead
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.
William WordsworthRead
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo LeviRead
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
George EliotRead
God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
BonoRead