“I've had people say, "You know, this 'Hope and Change' business, Rush, it's just as dangerous as, 'Make America Great Again,' all the specifics." And what you're really saying - even though you didn't voice this - is Barack Obama ended up being an authoritarian. He ended up being supported as an authoritarian because his wacko base wanted that stuff done - i.e., they wanted conservatives humiliated and defeated and ticked off and mad and losing everything, and they didn't care how Obama did.” PeopleDoneCareDangerousLosingMadBarackDefeatedHumiliated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump and Sean Spicer do one thing after another to keep the media attention focused on them. And it works. These legislative achievements are being made which are chipping away at anything the government has that's of any use to anybody. Paul Ryan, I think, is the most dangerous guy in the government. He knows what he's doing. And it's very systematic. I presume he's behind the cabinet appointments, but it's pretty amazing that every single cabinet appointment is somebody devoted to destroying that part of government.” ThinkingGuyAttentionDangerousAchievementFocused Author:Noam Chomsky
“Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them.” GivingDonePresidentWorryDangerousPersonalityAbuse Author:John Dean
“I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingDangerousEmptySickShiningIdeologyVesselNarcissisticSalesmanNarcissist Author:John Dean
“It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and it's very different now. When you make it as pop and as soft as it is, it lacks its integrity. It lacks its accountability. It lacks a lot of other things that came from that dangerous time in hip hop.” DifferentDangerousIntegrityHip HopRapAccountabilityParadoxBeing Popular Author:Ice T
“I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.” ThinkingDangerousThreatSexuality Author:Lars von Trier
“The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.” TryingArtBookSoulBeautifulFilmDangerousWinnerLoserBrutalLiberatingMovie Business Author:Ronnie Apteker
“Bombing is a very dangerous option because it's so convenient and because at home it's politically acceptable because our boys aren't dying on the ground, it gets us into tremendous trouble, which, of course, in general is true of bombing.” HomeBoysTroubleDyingDangerous Author:Pierre Sprey
“If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.” DangerousGun Author:Hillary Clinton
“Every time a journalist will say: "Can women be funny? Can women be pilots? Can women be scientists?" It's less of a question and more of a statement after a while that makes you believe that maybe we can't. I think that's dangerous. I was really happy that I didn't have those barriers, but now I recognize the barriers of many other people.” PeopleThinkingBelieveDangerousScientistJournalistBarriersReally Happy Author:Katherine Ryan
“Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it, dangerous. When we talk about human community, we certainly now have a tool in our hands that enables us to reach out as we never have before. It broadens our sense certainly of what community is and even of our own place in it.” KindCommunityDangerousCommunicationInternetReach Out Author:Joan D. Chittister
“It's no accident that there is a nexus between Trump, Roger Stone and Infowars and Alex Jones. It's very much an Infowars presidency in many ways. The President is a conspiracy theorist. He has reliably touted conspiracy theories. It's a core part of how he processes the world epistemically. That is deeply, deeply dangerous, and disturbing.” WorldPresidentDangerousConspiracyConspiracy Theory Author:Chris Hayes
“It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away. We think, "Well, what are you gonna do?" In a way, that little instinct, that "What are you gonna do?" is the most dangerous thing in the world.” ThinkingWorldDangerousInstinctAbstractFar Away Author:Ben H. Winters
“We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.” WorldWarCountryViolenceDangerous Author:Jodie Evans
“A lot of children of this generation have their entire lives made public before they have a say about what they would want. I think it should always be a choice. I love social media, and I love what it can do and how it brings people together, but used in the wrong way, it's incredibly dangerous.” PeopleThinkingChildrenTogetherChoicesDangerousSocial Media Author:Emma Watson
“If you don't agree with the direction something is going in, at least at work, you should always try it first, unless it's dangerous or damaging. But if you have an opinion about the direction your work should be taking, say it. Then back it up with proof and other solutions.” TryingOpinionDangerousSolutionsAgree Author:Anna Gunn
“I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!” ThinkingInterestDangerousPoliceFeminist Author:Jessica Valenti
“One of the dangers today is that when we don't like what the facts tell us, we just attack the facts, and we undermine the credibility of institutions. That is true not just for reporting; it's true of when people are attacking the congressional budget office, or when they're attacking certain science - that's where we can get into a dangerous realm.” PeopleTodayDangerousDangerOfficeCredibility Author:David Grann
“The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order to bring pressure on their governments. And they gave us a free press. They understood that you might have in the presidency someone who wanted to arrogate power into themselves. And they believed that was dangerous, having just experienced King George. And so they built a balanced system.” FatherDangerousIndependentCivil Society Author:Condoleezza Rice
“This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put in a line of activities interfering in domestic affairs.” DangerousPerceptionAffairInterfere Author:Dmitry Peskov
“In a perfect world, we wouldn't have any nuclear weapons. But it's not a perfect world. In fact, it's a very dangerous world.” WorldPerfectDangerousNuclear WeaponsA Perfect World Author:Kellyanne Conway
“There are a lot of people being duped with misinformation, and they're all rejoicing over Donald Trump. And having a white nationalist be his chief strategist and have a racist be your attorney general, this is a really dangerous situation for our country.” PeopleCountrySituationDangerousRacistRejoiceAttorneyMisinformation Author:Christian Picciolini
“I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.” PeopleDarkVisionSupportDangerousBehaviorNegativeSickTired Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government is great and that government's there to make sure corporations play fair and are not mean and do not rip people off, there's a little bit of truth in everything. Some corporations are bad, some corporations have done bad things, but as a general rule, it's dangerous to subscribe to things like that.” PeopleMeanDoneEvilDangerousRipPresumption Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.” ThinkingForgetHellChildhoodDangerousStuckGloriousAdulthoodAdolescenceDystopia Author:Benjamin E. Sasse
“Donald Trump has brought into his cabinet James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is Secretary of Defense. A "mad dog" is a dangerous creature. And to think of sending such a man with such a reputation into Chicago after he, President Trump, has said to our mayor and the police department: "You all better get this violence thing straight or we'll have to help you do it." They're intending to come and search homes for weapons and kill those who would advance opposition, a slaughter.” ThinkingMenHelpingHomePresidentViolenceDogDangerousPoliceMadReputationSecretary Author:Louis Farrakhan
“People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.” PeopleDangerousBehaviorCorruption Author:Julian Assange
“I want a society in which we don't throw things and people away with quite the abandon we do, especially people. This is why the idea of disruptive technologies is quite dangerous, because you ought to be asking ourselves, what exactly are we disrupting?” PeopleTechnologyDangerousAbandon Author:Sheila Jasanoff
“I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.” ThinkingDangerousHonestyPlantDeceitOpenness Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I think we raised awareness of spice and what it's doing to people in prison. The media is also doing a good job of highlighting how dangerous it is as well, so maybe we can add to that.” PeopleThinkingAwarenessDangerousPrisonGood Job Author:Danny Miller
“You look at Libya, and you go, "Jesus, why the hell did we do that?" That's beyond stupid. That's so irresponsible and dangerous for our national security and frankly for the national security of Europe because you go and you look at where a lot of these refugees are coming out of, they're coming out of Misrata and Tripoli.” JesusHellSecurityDangerousStupidNational SecurityRefugee Author:Michael T. Flynn
“We are in an extremely dangerous situation. It was ignorant and ahistorical for Donald Trump to say that the EU will dissolve. He is a man of very little historical understanding. For example, when he accused his own intelligence community of using Nazi tactics against him, he was actually confusing the Nazis with East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Trump also has no idea that for 70 years, it has been U.S. policy to support those who want to unite Europe. It is very dangerous that he is turning his back on Europe now.” MenUnderstandingCommunitySecretSituationSupportDangerousPolicyPoliceHistoricalIgnorantNaziConfusingAccused Author:Anthony Glees
“All these think tank experts in Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Center say, "It's really, really a dangerous thing. It's just not right. The president of the United States should never, ever make his first foreign trip to the Middle East! Never, ever. Because it's too fraught with potential disaster. Because President Trump clearly is not sophisticated enough to know the idiosyncrasies, the customs, and the requirements." That's right, no president ever has. Do you know that there has never by a direct flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv until Donald Trump did it? Never.” ThinkingEnoughPresidentDangerousDirectDisasterFlightSophisticatedIdiosyncrasies Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends can be dangerous. If you want to avoid them on these grounds, be my guest. But I wonder what your life will then be like.” BeautifulValuesEvilWonderDangerousMoral Values Author:Alexander Nehamas
“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.” PeopleKindTermConsciousnessWonderfulRiskDangerousSocial MediaPublish Author:Suzanne Nossel
“The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.” ThinkingCountryMomentsEnemyWorstDangerousScaryBitterIronyMachismo Author:David Brooks
“I believe it is dangerous to think that the more extreme forms of censorship are more worthy of our attention. If we put all our effort into looking for the splinter in Turkey or China's eye, we may fail to recognise the plank in our own.” ThinkingBelieveEyeI BelieveEffortAttentionFailingDangerousWorthyCensorship Author:Moddi
“When somebody comes up with a progressive idea, to begin with, you're mad, bonkers. Then if you go on, you're dangerous. Then there's a pause. Then you can't find anyone who can say they thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made. This is why I do believe in the vote. In the end, all these people who've been tempted to the right realise the warning lights in their constituency are brighter than the bright lights from No. 10 offering them things.” PeopleBelieveProgressDangerousVoteMadProgressiveRealising Author:Tony Benn
“I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.” WorldBelieveI BelieveResponsibilityDangerousSuperpower Author:Michael McCaul
“Democratic Party are totalitarian, authoritarians who - when you get right down to it - are showing everybody they have no respect for the democratic process, and they want no part of it. They are trying to undermine it. This isn't insecurity. This is dangerous!” TryingPartyDangerousDemocraticInsecurityDemocratic PartyNo Respect Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.” ThinkingTryingKindDangerousExcitedBoundariesNervousGet Better Author:Gore Verbinski
“Liberals talk about how evil it is, and they talk about how deadly it is. They won't ban it. If it's so bad, if it's so deadly, if it's so dangerous, if it's so harmful, if it's so mean, why don't they ban it? Just ban the product.” MeanEvilDangerous Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation in North Korea has become. I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to China's interests as well.” ThinkingInterestSituationDangerousThreatNorth KoreaDisagreement Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The Chinese always say they have very little influence. They have more than they say they do. We should put pressure on them to do it and there's finally, we're seeing the first signs of a little bit of Chinese disaffection. At some point they're getting tired of the antics of this country. This is a dangerous ally for China to have. And the more Chinese can pressure them and put the economic screws on them, the better it will be for everybody.” CountryInfluenceEconomicDangerousTiredChineseNorth Korea Author:Richard N. Haass
“Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.” MenDesireDangerousSay AnythingMasculinity Author:Janet Mock
“There is no devious and dangerous life. I've lived a charmed life, especially in the last thirty years since I've started publishing. I've won the lottery. And I keep winning it every year and I am so fortunate to do something I thoroughly enjoy and still enjoy after a bunch of books.” BookWinningEnjoyDangerousPublishingLottery Author:John Grisham
“And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.” PeopleMeanImportantUnderstandingEnemyPathDangerousDangerImportanceConstitutionDemocraticProfessionQuestioningBizarre Author:Ted Lieu
“I'm practical, very data-driven and process-oriented. I'm very objective and analytical about everything. Ninety-five percent of situations on the wall are not that dangerous. Most people look at the climb and think, 'that's crazy.' But when you know the intricacies of your gear, the belay situation and the forces involved, it's pretty safe.” PeopleThinkingSituationCrazyDangerousWall Author:Kevin Jorgeson
“I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.” ThinkingTryingWarTodayPresidentChallengesDangerousColdCompetitionThreatCold WarWant USuperpower Author:Michael McFaul
“One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.” PeopleImportantTreeDangerousBuildingCollegeOne DayBirdChemistry Author:Ralph Nader