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• It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Talking, People, Impossible

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

  Hugo Chavez

  Empires, Planets, Our Planet

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Artist, Two, Influence

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• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Two, Fields, Wages

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• I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Cheating, Thinking

  Referring to 'Ossian' in a letter to James Macpherson, 20 January 1775: James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 298

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• Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Logic

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• [On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Body, Journalism, Turds

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Passion, Mean

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever joined somebody else's civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I quote one volunteer, Maury Colow of New York, who said, "for us it was never Franco, it was always Hitler."

  Adam Hochschild

  New York, War, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Kids, Gangsta, Surveillance Cameras

  "Geraldo: Martin killed due to 'hoodie'" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard- working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard- working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.

  Erich von Manstein

  Stupid, Hard Work, Intelligent

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• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Secret, Vampire

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

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• Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Abhorrent, Rising, Consciousness

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Pain, Feelings

  H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.502, Lulu.com

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• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  B. H. Roberts

  Book, Two, Views

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• The only menace is inertia.

  Saint-John Perse

  Laziness, Inertia

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• The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Country, College

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• No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Feelings, Lines, Celebration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

  Herman Melville

  Beast, Aggression, Ifs

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.246

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• A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Believe, Fairy Stories

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Government, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.

  Richard Meltzer

  Beer, Years, Once Upon A Time

  Source: therumpus.net

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