Threatening Quotes
350 quotes by 320 authors
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That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for…
— Robert Musil
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's…
— Al Gore
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Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in…
— Jeff Cooper
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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much…
— Peter Watts
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That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her…
— Joan Bennett
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But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem…
— Stephen Colbert
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As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their…
— Rosie O'Donnell
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If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if…
— Howard Zinn
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It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice…
— Emma Stone
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I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.
— Emma Stone
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Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening…
— Doc Severinsen
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There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful…
— Mary Tyler Moore
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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand…
— Deepak Chopra
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That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.
— Ajahn Amaro
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In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands…
— Massimo Vignelli
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
— Robin Morgan
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Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.
— George H. W. Bush
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