Slippery Slope Quotes

• New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sex, Gay

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale

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• All marriages are same sex marriages. You get married and every night, it's the same sex.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale

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• There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Freedom, Loss, Long

  The New York Times, September 26, 1982.

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• Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

  Leon Kass

  Hands, Boundaries, Human Life

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• And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Men, Belief

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• All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

  George Will

  Political, Important, Four

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

  David Baltimore

  People, Calling, Cloning

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• I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

  Michelle Shocked

  Faith, Soul, Devil

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• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  Barbara Lee

  Giving Up, War, Erosion

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview With Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Saws

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

  Iain Banks

  People, Legal System, Reason

  "Iain Banks: Even at my age I still have something to prove". Interview With Maxton Walker, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

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• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Basketball, Numbers, Judgment

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• Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

  Peter Singer

  Doctors, Want, Able

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Littles, Slopes, Bits

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• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

  Halle Berry

  Thinking, Way, Sides

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• In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

  Carre Otis

  Past, Hopeful, Next

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

  Miles Franklin

  Fire, May, Sparks

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

  Dan Ariely

  Believe, Persons, Slopes

  "How to Stop Illegal Downloads". danariely.com. November 3, 2012.

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• It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Down And, Slides

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

  Anne Campbell

  Selfishness, Firsts, Steps

  Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books

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• And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Games, Play

  "Kristen's Wedding" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. October 5, 2011.

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• Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a
  slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and,
  before you know it, Jager tainting.

  Stephen Colbert

  Scotch, Next, Sound

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• There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Mean, Men

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• I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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