“Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.” BeautifulPowerfulGreaterDangerousMountainNobleMoodMysteriousSymbols Author:Robert Genn
“If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.” PeopleIfsMovingGreaterDangerousCrimePolicyConversationPrisonCriminalsViolentExpensesTrendsLocksBreedingViolent CrimesLock Up Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.” WorldFeelingsRealityMightLife IsCausesPowerfulCommonMoralGreaterInfluenceEffectsDangerousAmbitionAffairEnvyNakedFancyMost PowerfulPrincipalNourishment Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.” BelievePersonsGovernmentFormGreaterDangerousAuthorityArmyThreatUrgesDependenceForms Of GovernmentTreasuryCentralization Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.” MenGivingSelfSeemsSufferingImaginationGreaterDangerousComfortGiving UpFemaleCharityCopHierarchyLooking DownPerpetuating Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays
“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."” PeopleKnowsHomeAnimalNumbersGreaterLandDangerousGrewGrew UpAdvantageTownsMilesWildernessRepresentationAttackingAcresWild AnimalMinnesotaUnsafeDepiction Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.” PeopleHas BeensProblemUsedLeaderGreaterDangerousRevolutionVietnameseMaoGreater Power Author:Lynne Stewart
“There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.” CountryGreaterRiskMiddleDangerousSpringImpactDeeperEastReachingRegionsIranMiddle EastScenariosArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisUpheavalPreludeArab Spring Author:Ian Bremmer
“I would never say they look exactly the same, but what I would say is that the differences are not enough to save your job, to save your life, or to save the planet. And what we have right now is a race to the bottom, between the greater and lesser evil. [Donald] Trump is a very dangerous and despicable demagogue. However, you know, policy for policy, Hillary's [Clinton] are also extremely dangerous.” KnowsLooksEnoughJobsEvilDifferencesRaceGreaterDangerousPolicyPlanetsTrumpRight NowClintonBottomDespicableLesser EvilSave The Planet Author:Jill Stein
“Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists who essentially would argue that any immigrant from Central America, let's say, who gets here to this country should be allowed to stay because their country is dangerous, their country is poor, and the opportunities for that mom and that kid are much greater here, and why would you send them back?” ShouldCountryKidsAmericaOpportunityChallengesPoorGreaterDangerousMomArguingImmigrationReformDiscussionImmigrantsActivistImmigration ReformCentral America Author:Barack Obama
“Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.” PersonsUseGreaterRiskDangerousDrugBehaviorResponseDrivingViolentDrunkTreatmentIllegalDriversAttemptingCounselingIllegal DrugsViolent DeathDrunk Driving Author:Michelle Alexander