“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.” MenSaidHardTodayTogetherRealizingGroupsInfluenceDangerousHe ManPaintingCriticismResponsibleCriticsSevenDrawingImmigrationLandscapeInsanityRebelMeaninglessAccusedDiscouragingTreasonVerge Author:A. Y. Jackson
“Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.” UseProblemTodayLawWhiteGroupsDangerousConcernTerrorAlcoholLikesReactionsAgencyAbortionDestructiveInvestigationLaw EnforcementEnforcementTacticsTobaccoFirearmsExplosivesMilitiaAnti AbortionArson Author:James Inhofe
“In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.” IfsWorldEnoughGroupsDangerousConvictionAvailableSpiteInvitedGatheringDine Book:The Art of Eating Source: The Art of Eating
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?” ThinkingKnowsMenBookEndsFallRealizingCuttingGroupsDangerousRevolutionQuietSittingPaidLibraryAssMessBudgetsDesksFalling ApartLibrarianSubversiveBudget Cuts Author:Michael Moore
“What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.” WorldJobsAnswersFocusGroupsDangerousFiguresThis WorldRaisesCandidatesConsultantsFocus Groups Author:Newt Gingrich
“No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.” ThinkingWorldCountryTodayPresidentCan DoSituationGrowingGroupsDangerousPeriodsCurrentsCommandDevelopingDisarray Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time” PersonsLongImportantDemocracyToo MuchGroupsDangerousPropositionsSmall GroupsToo Much Power Author:Aldous Huxley
“But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.” BelieveHumansMeanTwoUseDesireHumanityBeliefSocialRaceClassStruggleGroupsCenturyDangerousHuman NatureEvolutionConceptsMeaningfulSuperiorsIdeologyTriumphGenocideDeniedGenesEngineeringInferiors20th CenturyEmphasisMarxismEugenicsRemakesSocial Engineering Author:Steven Pinker
“Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.” PeopleWorldBelievePersonsIdeasLyingSimpleNumbersSituationGroupsDangerousBehaviorOriginalsCrisisMetaphorInsightGuidanceExplanationChanging The WorldOddsSyncLarge GroupsSimple Ideas Author:Bill Bonner
“A dangerous thesis has taken hold among many in the GOP: that it might be better to lose the '06 election and re-group. In American history, when a faction in the majority party decides the party is tired and could benefit from some time in the wilderness, the voters usually oblige. Most recently, the latest issue of Washington Monthly includes a cover story featuring seven such articles from prominent Republican strategists, insiders and commentators.” StoriesMightLosesPartyIssuesTakenGroupsDangerousRepublicanBenefitsElectionMajorityTiredSevenWildernessLinksVotersArticlesAmerican HistoryCommentatorsFactionsProminentThesisStrategistGopInsiders Author:Larry Sabato
“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.” DoeGovernmentGroupsDangerousBuildingPoetHarderPoetry IsSensibilityOrganizeUndermining Author:Sam Hamill
“I do not believe Federal Government fear me at all, they know the truth. They know I am not a dangerous person, they hold me as a hostage to discourage other people from possibly standing up to their valued system. In their minds, right or wrong the public is expected to lay down for them. You see examples of this, at the Ruby Ridge massacre and the Waco massacre, where they killed all those children and group members.” PeopleKnowsMindBelieveChildrenPersonsGovernmentGroupsDangerousExampleMembersStandingLaysExpectedFederal GovernmentDiscouragingHostageMassacresHold MeRubiesRidgesFear Me Author:Leonard Peltier
“These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.” WayNeedsAmericaGoalGroupsDangerousFrontsRelationAffairViolentDoctrineIslamicAccountabilityBrotherhoodToxicCouncilImposingNorth AmericaCounterpartsPublic AffairsMuslim BrotherhoodIslamic Society Author:Frank Gaffney
“In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many interest groups but is simply the dominant group, now as whites become - are close to becoming a minority of Americans, are becoming a political interest group. And that's what Donald Trump is playing to. And it's a really dangerous, volatile game.” ThinkingPoliticalGamesInterestGroupsDangerousTrumpBecomingMajorityMinoritiesDominantInterest Groups Author:George Packer
“Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.” StillsLossGroupsSpecialDangerousCarParticularRemainsIraqInnocentBombsAlsCiviliansMilitiaResidual Author:David Petraeus
“I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you say that, you also have to say that they triumphed, that they prevailed.” BelieveFormI BelievePowerfulGroupsDangerousInjusticePermanentStereotypeVictimhood Author:Kevin Starr
“I think the Christian Coalition could be extremely dangerous. We should always be concerned when any group wants to impose their doctrinal concerns on all. To an extent that's what they are trying to do.” ThinkingWantShouldTryingChristianGroupsDangerousConcernConcernedCoalitions Author:Noam Chomsky
“Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that is very dangerous because then it could be a model to other movements and groups in neighboring countries. And gradually there could be an erosion from within by indigenous forces of American domination of the region.” CountryForceSocialSuccessfulGroupsEconomicDangerousMovementDevelopmentModelsRegionsVietnamDominationIndigenousEconomic DevelopmentErosion Author:Noam Chomsky