Slippery Slope Quotes - Page 2

• I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, People, Blanket

  "Cuban not in favor of booting Sterling". Interview with Tim MacMahon, www.espn.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

  Luke Evans

  Thinking, Different, Slopes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

  Garrett Hardin

  Zero, Fall, Abortion

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, World

  "Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, J.J. Abrams, and More Band Together to Keep Kodak Film Alive; Deal Being Struck with Studios" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 30, 2014.

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• This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Dog, Men

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 29, 2010.

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• If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fall, Men, Two

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson and Candy Carson, December 16, 2011.

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• Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Sea, Today

  "How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.

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• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Strong, Mistake

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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• People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

  Kerry Washington

  Country, Gay, Thinking

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Departure, Firsts, Facts

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• That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Drug, Needs

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Ethics

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

  Errol Morris

  Taken, Thinking, Guarantees

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• Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

  Rick Santorum

  Pandora's Box, Boxes, Court

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2015.

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• You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

  Stella Benson

  Idols, Feet, Clay

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”

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• The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Men, Order

  "Kennedy Tells Falwell Group Of Tolerance" by Phil Gailey, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 1983.

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• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Goes On, Intrigue, Sensibility

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.

  Jenna Black

  Kissing, Voice, Want

  Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Cracks, Needs, Tinkerbell

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• Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Firsts, Steps, Homosexuality

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

  Lee Child

  Car, House, Needs

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1075, Delacorte Press

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• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

  David Levithan

  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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