Menace Quotes

• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Real, Humorous

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• What does your heart tell you?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Doe, Obi Wan Kenobi

  "Fictional character: Aragorn". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Now, be brave and don't look back. Don't look back.

  Shmi Skywalker

  Brave, Looks, Be Brave

  "Fictional character: Shmi Skywalker". "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

  Josiah Strong

  Civilization, Cities, Peculiar

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

  Brigham Young

  Marriage, Men, Community

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• Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

  James Thurber

  Husband, Men, Bed

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Enemy, Defense

  "The World Crisis". Volume I,

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fitness, Cancer, Exercise

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Hussein, Disputes, Saddam

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• Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Book, Artist, Space

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Life, Country, Mass Destruction

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. MArch 21, 2003.

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• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  Gale Gordon

  Joy

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Self Destruction

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Believe, Land, People

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• Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taxation, Way, Sophisticated

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

  George Sand

  Prayer, World, Lovers

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• The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Criminals

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

  Mitch Daniels

  Ink, Debt, Red

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• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  Mitch Daniels

  Reality, Ink, Debt

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Self, Civilization, Giving

  Herbert Butterfield (1953). “Christianity, Diplomacy and War”, London : Epworth Press

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