Dangerous Quotes - Page 32

• America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years, the danger was to everybody near us, slaves, Native Americans, Mexicans. It finally expanded in 1898 to the Caribbean, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Native American, Years

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.

  Danny Boyle

  Running, Mistake, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars and 3D printers. But that doesn't mean that we know any more about the essential things in life - love, faith, death - and it would be dangerous to assume we did. The only thing that gets us through sometimes is a proper, humbled sense that we don't have a clue, we can't be sure what's going to happen next and life will always be much larger than our ideas of it.

  Pico Iyer

  Mean, Love Life, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by blocking out all other viewpoints but their own, only reading their own propaganda and only associating with each other.

  Dave Sim

  Block, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that. They can't maintain their sanity. Some women can, but many cannot. They think they can, but self-objectification is really dangerous.

  Anna Biller

  Sex, Thinking, Often Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, United States, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Granted, Complacent

  Source: collider.com

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• People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

  Elia Suleiman

  People, Coherence, Clarity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Mistake, Love You

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• I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it's like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can't pull back from that. That's not authentic to yourself.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Song, Men, Issues

  Source: thesource.com

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• People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

  Kabir Sehgal

  People, Debt, Weapons

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

  George Benjamin

  Joy, Concerts, Anything Can Happen

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount. I applaud the efforts of the Church to provide for people in need, regardless of where they're from or how they got here. But I think it's a mistake to turn around and expect a nation to act that way. Americans are uniquely tempted to imagine that we are a church, and that we are a universal nation. This is one of the reasons why we're such a dangerous country.

  Kelefa Sanneh

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

  Deray McKesson

  Real, Hatred, Speak

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.

  Norbert Elias

  Country, Violence, Resentment

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Debating the concept of race does not mean that I in any way regard this as a quarrel between neighbors over where they come from. I have perhaps said enough when I said the alternative to assimilation is that immigrant groups form their own state or go away for lack of acceptance. Why should it be less serious if quarrels and dissensions are socially related? After all, the quarrels and dissensions between Russia and America are also not racial. And yet they seem to me extremely dangerous.

  Norbert Elias

  Mean, Acceptance, Going Away

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I've had people say, "You know, this 'Hope and Change' business, Rush, it's just as dangerous as, 'Make America Great Again,' all the specifics." And what you're really saying - even though you didn't voice this - is Barack Obama ended up being an authoritarian. He ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done - i.e., they wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything, and they didn't care how Obama did.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Mad, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These legislative achievements are being made which are chipping away at anything the government has that's of any use to anybody. Paul Ryan, I think, is the most dangerous guy in the government. He knows what he's doing. And it's very systematic. I presume he's behind the cabinet appointments, but it's pretty amazing that every single cabinet appointment is somebody devoted to destroying that part of government.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Achievement, Guy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them.

  John Dean

  Giving, Worry, Personality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.

  John Dean

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.

  Ice T

  Integrity, Rap, Hip Hop

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• I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

  Lars von Trier

  Thinking, Sexuality, Threat

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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