Threatened Quotes - Page 22

• If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

  David K. Shipler

  Believe, Intuition, Done

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• Threatened folk live long.

  Walter Scott

  Long, Folks

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• This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Mean, Men

  "Fictional character: 'Pippa' Passworthy". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

  Gordon Allport

  Simple, Emotional, Light

  "The Nature of Prejudice" by Gordon Allport, (p. 9), 1954.

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• The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Rights, Race, Church

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• Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

  George D. Prentice

  Habit, Fortresses, Proportion

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• Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
  Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
  Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
  Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Women, Heaven, Devil

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• I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

  Steig Larsson

  Writing, Police, Too Much

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• Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

  Perry Brass

  Kids, Rude, Parent

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.28, Perry Brass

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Weird Things, Feels, Knows

  "Aaron Eckhart Interview BATTLE: LOS ANGELES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Violence, Century

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

  Tony Burgess

  Believe, Book, Should

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Stuff, Faces, Internet

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, Humanity, Survival

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Men, Way

  Source: www.people.com

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• The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ideas, Mediocrity, Publicity

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• Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

  Jeff Smith

  Joy, Cooking, Heat

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• TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

  Peter Scott

  Falling In Love, Reality, People

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• ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

  Paul Douglas

  Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

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• ...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the 1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut off.

  Paul Douglas

  Dark, Men, Age

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• No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

  Christopher Ryan

  Needs, Accord, Creatures

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• Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

  Voltaire

  Hope, Virtue, Should

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.318

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