Dangerous Quotes - Page 32

• In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Personality, Soul

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• The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Player, Swings

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• Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

  Ann Patchett

  Gun, Shots

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

  Flying Lotus

  Trying

  "Brainfeeder at the Bowl: A roundtable discussion with George Clinton, Flying Lotus and Thundercat". Interview with Mikael Wood, www.latimes.com. September 16, 2016.

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• These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, America, Goal

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• Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Ocean, Pyramids, Tiny

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dangerous Ideas, Yesterday, Today

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

  Jill Stein

  Criminals, Investment, Crime

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Russia, Causes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, America, Watches

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

  Frederick Busch

  Writing, Dark, Trying

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African- Americans, Hispanics are living in he'll because it's so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, African American, Shots

  "Why does Donald Trump keep talking about Chicago?" by Zach Stafford, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2016.

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• Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. He said, I have a secret plan, and then he said, um, I know more than all the generals about ISIS. And then he said, I'm going to call the generals to help me figure out a plan. And finally he said, I'm going to fire all the generals. He doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas.

  Tim Kaine

  Fire, Dangerous Ideas, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas.

  Tim Kaine

  Dangerous Ideas, Doe, Trump

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Speaking of failure, when we do our question and answer period, you look at what's happened with our Navy in terms of the number of ships and our armed forces generally, how they're so depleted, how they're at almost record-setting lows and in some cases absolute record-setting lows. It is very, very unfortunate and very, very dangerous for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Numbers, Navy

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Numbers, Hearing

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Littles, Body

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone in an hour. If we had that ability, the art would not be legal. It would too dangerous.

  Bill Burr

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

  Van Jones

  Dirty, Wind Farms, Leaving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

  Van Jones

  Atmosphere, Yards, Ordinary

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Important, Arena, Said

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.

  Werner Herzog

  Rocks, Boards, Actors

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, America, President

  "King Donald crowns himself" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

  Jane Goodall

  Heart, Waiting, Brain

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by the police, harassed by security forces, and in some instances killed because they are black and assumed to be dangerous.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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