Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.Ernest Renan
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
Barry Eisler -
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
Taylor Swift -
I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
Victoria Abril -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom -
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius -
I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
Dana Ashbrook -
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo Picasso -
The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland -
If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
Rachel Hunter -
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Liu Xiaobo
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde -
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde -
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar Wilde -
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde -
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
Mark Levin -
Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
Jaden Smith
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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.
Vladimir Lenin -
I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.
Hillary Clinton -
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
Blake Mycoskie -
I'm not trying to start a controversy. She's greased-lightning and the best thing to ever happen to IRL. But she's not strong enough. She's wearing out. That's why she's slipping back in races.
Bobby Unser -
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
Ernest Renan