Alarmists Quotes - Page 2

• What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?

  Lynne Truss

  Use, World, Ends

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• I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.

  Bill Walsh

  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Government, Extinction

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• [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Aunt, Wish, Anarchist

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• Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, Periods, Call Me

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• A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

  John Edgar Park

  Christian, Book, Simple

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• The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity - a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

  Sarah Palin

  Long, Interesting, President

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• Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

  David Miliband

  Important, Climate, Dangerous

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• Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'

  Orlando Patterson

  Thinking, Class, Long

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• I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Epidemics, Bird, Flu

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  William Safire

  Mean, Years, Creating

  "The Great Unwatched" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2002.

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• People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Data, People, World

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• ...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Track, Environmental, Groups

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• Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

  Barbara Boxer

  Trump, Knows

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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