- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dangerous Quotes
On the risks people choose to name out loud.
This page collects quotes that call out different kinds of danger - deferring too readily to experts, the real-world push to price carbon pollution as climate policy, and the everyday risks of oversharing on social platforms. See also Dangerous Thing.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Muslim American activist, I've been targeted by the right wing in a way that is very dangerous.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to get involved with people on the Internet because it can be very dangerous. The whole point of 'Trust' is to inform people about this issue.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
- Propaganda
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unfathomable that Twitter would be so brazenly complacent, allowing Hamas to use its platform as a terror command and communications center of dangerous propaganda.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
- Throwback
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
- Successful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful films are very dangerous things.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
- Dangerous Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've driven your kids to the store, and you leave them for five minutes, by far the most dangerous thing you've done is just put your kid in the car and driven them to the store.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020