Dangerous Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• There are no little fights for me. I consider every fighter dangerous. You lose when you think a fighter is not on your level and then he comes in hungrier than you. That will never happen to me.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Fighting, Thinking, Levels

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• To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

  Confucius

  Teaching, Strange, Oneself

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• U.S. domestic drug policy does not carry out its stated goals, and policymakers are well aware of that. If it isn't about reducing substance abuse, what is it about? It is reasonably clear, both from current actions and the historical record, that substances tend to be criminalized when they are associated with the so-called dangerous classes, that the criminalization of certain substances is a technique of social control.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Goal, Historical

  "On the War on Drugs". Week Online interview, chomsky.info. February 8, 2002.

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• Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, Marijuana, Class

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• Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

  Noah Webster

  Heart, Knowledge Learning, Community

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• Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Real, Order, Giving

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• The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Class, Able

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Economist”, p.637, VM eBooks

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• Sometimes dangerous paths are the only paths leading to the safest paths. In these cases, do not hesitate to take the dangerous roads!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Path, Sometimes, Cases

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• When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, May, Safe

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• What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Rain, Animal

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.3, Routledge

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• Living safely is dangerous.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  "Fictional character: Friedrich Nietzsche". "When Nietzsche Wept", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Powerful, Special, World

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• Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

  Confucius

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• Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Practice, Next

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• I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

  Bear Grylls

  Animal, Snakes, Healthy

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• Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rats, Driving

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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• When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Army, People, Safety

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.

  Simon Helberg

  Hero, People, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

  Will Smith

  Risk, Life Is

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Faithful, Window

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.

  Michael Harner

  Spiritual, Organization, Political

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