- Phone
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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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.
- Obsession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any obsession is dangerous.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed in 1974 after tests discovered carcinogens, lead and dangerous bacteria flowing from faucets in New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Boston and elsewhere.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020