Dangerous Quotes - Page 10

• Actors, it's very hard for them to make value judgments when they play characters. It's very dangerous if you start thinking of yourself as a bad guy.

  Stacy Keach

  Thinking Of You, Character, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.

  Kofi Annan

  Moving, Dangerous Situations, People

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

  Maurice Sendak

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• Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Ornaments, Shore

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

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• Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Storm

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• Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Exercise, Weapons

  Pat Robertson (1994). “The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1”, Bristol Park Books

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• An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

  Ashley Montagu

  World, Danger, North Korea

  Ashley Montagu (1958). “Education and Human Relations”

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• If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

  Jim Hightower

  Ifs

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• The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Cages, Beast, Be Careful

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1996). “Class warfare: interviews with David Barsamian”, Common Courage Pr

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• Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Trying, Imbalance, Normal

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• So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Self, Doe, Fool

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, World, Resurrection

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.

  Thomas Sowell

  Lying, Race, Play

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• When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Player, Mood, Harps

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Kids, Car

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• How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.

  Francois Fenelon

  Country, Heart, Want

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• Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

  Max Gunther

  Looks, Chaos, Orderly

  Max Gunther (2010). “How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks”, p.129, Harriman House Limited

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• I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

  Garson Kanin

  Smart, People, Ignorant

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• The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Thinking, Imagination, Meals

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• It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Powerful, Evil, Hatred

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rights, Law, Common

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press

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• I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Art, Believe, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.

  Martin O'Malley

  America, Principles, United States

  Martin O'Malley during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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