“Is he dangerous?
“Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.”
Alastair Reynolds book Chasm City
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 29 (p. 485).
“Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.”
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Daniel T. Gilbert (1957) American psychologist
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Mark Ames (1965) American writer and journalist
Part IV: Wage Rage, page 120.
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Paul Krugman (1953) American economist
This Week with Christiane Amanpour http://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-krugman-newt-gingrich-is-a-stupid-mans-idea-of-what-a-smart-person-sounds-like/, November 20, 2011
“Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Quoted in "After Stanley Kubrick" (18 August 2010), an interview of his wife Christiane Kubrick in The Guardian
Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) Tunisian politician
[Tunisia: Shudder at the Knees, TIME, Friday, Aug. 26, 1966, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842668,00.html, September 6, 2011]
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, 1993, ISBN 0231071949, 9780231071949. A similar quotation is almost invariably attributed to Gandhi, but more likely derives from a 1914 US trade union address: <br class="br">"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." General Executive Board Report and Proceedings [of The] Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I-0UAAAAIAAJ&q=%22first+they+ignore+you%22+%22build+monuments%22&dq=%22first+they+ignore+you%22+%22build+monuments%22&lr=&as_brr=0&pgis=1 <br class="br">2000s
“Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.”
Pete Hautman (1952) American children's writer
