Dangerous Quotes - Page 25

• I guess, as an Anglican, there's always room to move, which can be a dangerous thing, but also a very healthy thing, because bits of the great biblical tradition which you haven't fully plugged into before you've got the space to grow into... not least, the sacraments.

  N. T. Wright

  Moving, Biblical, Space

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Kids, Adults, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Marine, Air

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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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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• It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

  Danica Patrick

  Sports, Looks, Dangerous Sports

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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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• To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.

  Zhuangzi

  Trying, Solve

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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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• Be dangerous and unpredictable. And make a lot of noise.

  John Bush

  Noise, Unpredictable

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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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• 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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• The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Would Be, Problem, Archangel

  "Us and the hyperpower" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2002.

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• I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

  Angelina Jolie

  Artist, People, Lucky

  "Angelina Jolie Says She's 'Lucky' She Didn't Die Young" by moviefone.com, November 22, 2011.

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• Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

  Confucius

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• When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Jesus, Simple, People

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!

  Publilius Syrus

  Thinking, Safe, Dies

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• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Long, People

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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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• Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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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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