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“Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.”

Humans Fighting Natural Conditions Military Dangerous Obstacles Resistance Uncertain Hazards Formidable

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.”

Ideas Political Natural Simple Class Technology Economic Dangerous Estates Discontent Assassination Ripped Disruptive Avert Natural Death Economic Change Riddance

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!”

“The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.”

Use Speak Interest Natural Liberty Dangerous

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.”

War Difficult Natural Risk Dangerous Disaster Violent Zone Protest Natural Disaster War Zones

Author:Kate Adie

“All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.”

World Love Giving Heart Christian Passion Natural Dangerous Birth Theater Christian Life Delicate Representation Amusement

Book:Pascal's Pensées: Selections

Source: Pascal's Pensées: Selections

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.”

People Knows Years Fun Natural Animal Special Dangerous Havens Evolution Survival Smarter Selection Dinosaurs Natural Selection Darwinism

Author:Kurt Vonnegut