Dangerous Quotes - Page 12

• The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

  Gore Vidal

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.156, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Powerful, Special, World

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• The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Would Be, Problem, Archangel

  "Us and the hyperpower" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2002.

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• I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

  Angelina Jolie

  Artist, People, Lucky

  "Angelina Jolie Says She's 'Lucky' She Didn't Die Young" by moviefone.com, November 22, 2011.

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• Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

  Confucius

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• Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Practice, Next

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• When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Jesus, Simple, People

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!

  Publilius Syrus

  Thinking, Safe, Dies

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• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Long, People

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• I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

  Bear Grylls

  Animal, Snakes, Healthy

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• I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.

  Rita Dove

  Writing, Mean, Responsibility

  Interview with M. Wynn Thomas, www.english.illinois.edu. August 12, 1995.

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• Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

  Clement Greenberg

  Light, Different, Levels

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Rats, Driving

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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• Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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• When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Army, People, Safety

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• In terms of trying to improve as an actor, for me it's always important to return to the stage. After doing a piece of theater for a prolonged period, I can think I must have surely improved in some way as an actor - you must be fitter than you were prior to doing it. For me, theater is very, very important in keeping things fresh and dangerous.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Violence, Capacity

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.

  Simon Helberg

  Hero, People, Parent

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

  Will Smith

  Risk, Life Is

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Faithful, Window

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• What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.

  David Miliband

  Commitment, Political, Environmental

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• For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Temptation, Bears, Bothered

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• Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Religious, Temptation, Return

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• If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.

  Michael Harner

  Spiritual, Organization, Political

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• Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person is comic to his lover. The novel is a comic form. Language is a comic form, and makes jokes in its sleep. God, if He existed, would laugh at His creation. Yet it is also the case that life is horrible, without metaphysical sense, wrecked by chance, pain and the close prospect of death. Out of this is born irony, our dangerous and necessary tool.

  Iris Murdoch

  Pain, Sleep, Laughing

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.80, Penguin

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