“If they weren't so dangerous and destructive, one could smile and pat the Modern Liberal on the head and tell him how cute he is and go on about the business of being an adult. But he is dangerous and destructive, with the True Believer's very purpose being the total destruction of everything that God and science-most obviously Western Civilization-has ever created. ...The Modern Liberal will invariably and, in fact, inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.” IfsFactsPurposeEvilSidesModernDangerousGoes OnCivilizationBehaviorAdultsDestructionWesternBelieverCuteDestructiveWestern CivilizationTrue BelieverGod And Science Author:Evan Sayet
“In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.” MayHas BeensMatterHandsEvilInterestModernStageDangerousHighestInvestigationInterferenceModern History Book:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
“For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” ThinkingGivingHumansChildrenSelfPlayMovingFormGamesTechnologyDoubtModernMankindTalentDangerousDestructionSakeMy ChildrenProductiveControlledUnlimitedGrandchildrenSelf DestructionChildren And GrandchildrenPsychopathologyUnlimited Power Author:J. G. Ballard
“Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.” IfsHandsPresidentModernDangerousBarackPensModern History Author:Eric Bolling
“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.” MenWarHouseWhiteLeaderModernDangerousColdTragedyDiedIntelligentUnionsIllAdministrationWhite HouseRealisticSovietCold WarSoviet UnionDangerous ManModern Tragedy Author:George McGovern
“What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?” CharacterModernDangerousModern LifePlutoniumDisney Character Author:Johnny Carson
“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.” WorldWayLongHas BeensTwoStatesWould BeRunningPoliticalEvilWhiteUnitedUnited StatesStruggleRightsGenerationsModernDangerousTerribleIncreaseSlaveryPopulationTendenciesFasterSubmitModern WorldPolitical Rights Author:James Bryce
“In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.” KindSuccessEvilEnemyImpossibleModernDangerousSucceedLeavingDeeperGuiltyLayersAggressionDilemmaDefenseless Author:Robert Warshow
“I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.” NeedsWarCountryStatesRememberLyingStrongUnitedUnited StatesHeardModernMilitaryDangerousPolicyColdThreatCriticsDefenseOur CountryEfficientSenatorsCold WarHawks Author:Mario Cuomo
“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.” ThinkingWorldCharacterModernDangerousDangerExpressionEssentialsModern WorldTranscendencePropensity Author:Talal Asad
“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.” HumorFunnyModernDangerousComputerProgramHorseUselessOver YouSoftwareWormsVirusesMicrosoftSwampsCyberspaceTrojansTrojan HorseFestering Author:Dave Barry
“Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.” GivingHumansDoeFactsUseProblemRealityPastModernDangerousEventsRegretDrawsArgumentRelationHistoricalContemporaryHeritageAssociationDocumentariesDestinedReconstructionPast Regrets Author:Paul Rotha
“In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.” WorldIdeasModernDangerousComplexesFundamentalismRigidity Author:Michael Crichton
“If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.” IfsThinkingGivingLongDifferentTodayFormAsksTermAnswersModernDangerousRegardNuclearTerroristCombinationLong TermDamageThreateningModern LifeScenariosLikelihood Author:John L. Casti