“I do worry about the press and a President Trump. You know, I think it's dangerous the entire de-legitimization that he's engaged in against all of the media because the people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they do need us. You know, they need good, strong skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is, whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsHateStrongFunPresidentWorryMediaDangerousTrumpPressesBarackJournalistEngagedSkepticalCovering Author:Megyn Kelly
“You need to have new people, young people that are super excited and super eager to get in there anytime we're doing something dangerous action-wise. It's pretty annoying but I get it, I understand the enthusiasm, I just give it a little time.” PeopleNeedsGivingLittlesActionYoungWiseDangerousExcitedEnthusiasmAnnoyingLittle Time Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I know that the Communists are atheistic and godless, but I don't think that that's what's primarily the matter with them. What's primarily the matter with them is that they worship a false god. That's much more dangerous than when people don't believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they're not dangerous.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMayMatterDangerousWorshipDon't BelieveConfusedMeaning Of LifeCommunistAtheisticFalse Gods Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.” PeopleShouldHumansBodyLightPoliticalBornRightsDangerousHealthyDignityAbuseUnionsHuman RightsMedicalTreatmentSovietContinuingSurgeryThreateningSoviet UnionPsychiatrySubjectionHealthy BodyMutilationTranssexuals Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.” PeopleIfsActionFormDangerousJudgingEntering Author:Martin Schulz
“I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsReasonBlackBrainDangerousParticularTypeAssumptionBlack WomenContradicting Author:Morgan Parker
“There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.” PeopleIfsMenHandsRunningCertainPresidentNaturalLeaderMillionsDangerousHe ManHabitDiedVictimPlanesGenocideCrashAbyssArrestedRwandaPlane CrashesNatural Death Author:Paul Kagame
“There are people who are dangerous, and evil is real.” PeopleRealEvilDangerous Author:Shane Claiborne
“The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting societies from dangerous people without killing them. And in fact, it's important to remember that much of the world has done away with the death penalty.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensImportantCountryDoneFactsRememberUnderstandingDangerousCatholicKillingPenaltiesDeath PenaltyOutdated Author:Shane Claiborne
“Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.” PeopleWorldNeedsFirstsViewsDangerousTrumpStrikesMiserableWorld View Author:David Brooks
“We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis.” PeopleTogetherAmericaOrderEconomicSecurityDangerousBasesSecureAccomplishedCanadaWorking TogetherMassiveMexicoPartnershipContinentsEmergingDangerous ThingsNorth AmericaContinentalPerimeter Author:Alan Bersin
“There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.” PeopleTryingStatesSeemsFormDesirePresidentUnitedBreakUnited StatesBloodFansMiddleDangerousTrumpEuropeDemocraticEastTreasureRussiaOpponentsMassiveMiddle EastPassivePutinAlliancesUnprecedentedAssadGeopolitical Author:Van Jones
“It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingImportantSelfHomeAgeLawForceCan DoDangerousDutyBrokenSafeConflictConceptsAvailableDefenseNeighborhoodRequirementsThreatenedRetreatSelf DefenseEliminatingIfs AndDeadly Force Author:Eric Holder
“I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryAmericaDangerousWeaponsIndiaNuclearNuclear WeaponsDeceivingPakistanDangerous WorldIndia And Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think it's fair to say there is a demagogic path that Europeans, South Americans, Asians have pursued, and we know where that leads. It uses xenophobia, it uses paranoia, it uses prejudice, it uses nationalism to really stir people up and to, you know, begin an us-versus-them contrast, which is dangerous and is not something we've had in our politics at a presidential level in America.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseAmericaLevelsPathDangerousFairsPrejudiceSouthPresidentialNationalismContrastVersusPursuedParanoiaXenophobia Author:Hillary Clinton
“Bill Clinton persuaded some people that he was really a civilized character and his Administration had the best interests of humanity at heart. These days we don't have to put up with that nonsense. It's very clear that the George W. Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.” PeopleHeartCharacterHumanityInterestClearDangerousBillsClintonAdministrationThese DaysNonsenseCivilized Author:John Pilger
“Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.” PeoplePersonsWholeInterestStruggleDangerousDependsInstitutionsFoolishBuddhistDogmaTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.” PeopleWorldTryingIdeasReasonTogetherFightingClassSupportRightsEffectsDangerousPolicyProgramOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsWorkersWorking ClassGreeceGet TogetherInitiateReferendumsWorkers Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanChildrenDoeHandsWould BeBeliefViewsDangerousPersonalityElementsMajorsEnlightenmentValuablePhenomenonAssociationIrrationalSolidaritySustenanceIrrational Beliefs Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.” PeopleKindReasonDoneCultureLeftInterestingDemocracyRightsTroubleDangerousPeriodsIntellectualCommitmentSickHarmCivilized1960sObedientTimes Of Trouble Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable.” PeopleWayWellsDangerousCitizensRacismWestIraqAfrican AmericanTreatmentAsiaPalestineLatinoAmerican CitizensDehumanization Author:Tariq Ramadan
“People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that LSD, if it is used properly, is not a dangerous drug. We actually should not refer to it as drug; this word has a very bad connotation. We should use another name.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldUseTodayUsedNamesKnow HowDangerousDrugAuthorityInsightLsdConnotationDangerous Drugs Author:Albert Hofmann
“I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsShouldMadeRunningFeltMistakeKnow HowDangerousLike YouMade A MistakeAdrenalineI've Made Mistakes Author:Danny Boyle
“The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.” PeopleWritingBelieveIdeasSelfCharacterPoliticalLeftI BelieveRaceSilenceDangerousOughtDemandApproachEmbraceSpeciesCriticalSensitiveSuspectsNervesPassagesFascismApologyExaminationPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessSelf-examinationGauntlet Author:C.E. Morgan
“People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.” PeopleDangerousClarityBluntCoherence Author:Elia Suleiman
“People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.” PeopleDangerousWeaponsDebtLoan Author:Kabir Sehgal
“It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount. I applaud the efforts of the Church to provide for people in need, regardless of where they're from or how they got here. But I think it's a mistake to turn around and expect a nation to act that way. Americans are uniquely tempted to imagine that we are a church, and that we are a universal nation. This is one of the reasons why we're such a dangerous country.” PeopleThinkingCountryReasonChurchEffortMistakeImagineDangerousImagine ThatNew Testament Author:Kelefa Sanneh
“Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when feminism is such a buzzword in the media now. We're covering it in a way that we haven't before, but also in a way that's way more surface level. And while I think that there's some danger in that, I also think it's a great gateway for some people.” PeopleThinkingFeminismDangerousDangerActivist Author:Amandla Stenberg
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Obviously I think it's really important to look back at your history, and that's why I think things like Pride are important. It's not necessarily about your experience of life, it's not about whether you find it difficult to be gay; it's about the fact that people have fought over hundreds of years for this to be okay, and also that there are many countries in the world where it's still not, and it's very dangerous to be gay.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantCountryDifficultDangerousPrideGayOkay Author:Shura
“Russians absolutely not trying to meddle with the election of Donald Trump. I discussed that with the president-elect. Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it's a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it's dangerous and it does undermine our democracy.” PeopleTryingDemocracyDangerousElection Author:Kellyanne Conway
“You're always going to have dangerous, disaffected people in any society, and some will be violent. Increasing prosperity and reducing inequality won't solve that completely. But having big, positive dreams and a society that makes it possible to achieve those dreams is what we must strive for.” PeopleDreamAchieveDangerousStriveProsperityViolentInequality Author:Garry Kasparov
“I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.” PeopleThinkingEnoughEnjoyDangerousEatingSmartIntelligentDumbSmart PeopleTequilaDumb People Author:Joel McHale
“There are still many women - and their spouses and children - who view a reflected self - I'm Mrs. Smith, not Mary Smith - as psychologically healthy. Those people are not motivated to change. But it is really dangerous to live through others'. What ever your circumstances, it is not a good idea to be wholly dependent on responses from others to like, respect or love yourself. Your children will grow up and start their own families; the divorce rate has remained at 50 percent for decades.” PeopleChildrenGrowing UpLove YouDangerousCircumstancesHealthyOur ChildrenResponseRateDivorceYour ChildrenMotivatedLove YourselfSpouse Author:Judith M Bardwick
“I do not believe that marijuana is a gateway drug, and having been a mayor trying to keep my community safe, if there was any drug that was driving violence, more than marijuana, it was alcohol which is legal. And so I just don't think this is a gateway drug. And by the way, if you regulate it you're actually going to overcome a lot of problems with people having to go to the streets to buy their drug. You don't know how dangerous that is.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveProblemCommunityViolenceDangerousDrugOvercomingAlcoholDrivingMarijuana Author:Cory Booker