Menace Quotes

• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Real, Humorous

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Business, Positive Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

  Dr. Seuss

  Blue, Two, Red

  Dr. Seuss (2017). “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, HarperCollins UK

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• A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, People, Liberty

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• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  Frances Perkins

  Depression, Progress, Stopping

  On the depression of the1930s which inspired her to set up the Social Security system. Recalled on her death,14 May1965.

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

  Hugh Grant

  Natural, Given, Scorsese

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

  Dorothy Dix

  Fear, Dark, Worry

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• I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

  Hugo Chavez

  Empires, Planets, Our Planet

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• My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Artist, Two, Influence

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• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Two, Fields, Wages

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• The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

  Gregory Corso

  Judging, Crime, Said

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• The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Self, Complacency

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• Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Presidential, Hateful

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.259, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Law, Age, Nuclear

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• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Nikki Sixx

  Artist, Industry

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• The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Unions, Done, Excuse

  "Fulbright of Arkansas: The Public Positions of a Private Thinker". Book by J. William Fulbright, 1963.

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• Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Giving, India

  "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi".

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

  Anthony Burgess

  Baths, Cleanliness, Week

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

  Dave Barry

  Views, Skiers

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.88, Ballantine Books

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• It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Talking, People, Impossible

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Order, Doubt

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