Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.


Breyten Breytenbach

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS
We don't know enough to know whether any of that influence in any way stopped the administration or ...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian...
DAN BROWN
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability ...
IDA B. WELLS
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The enemy gets its strength from your fear. Rebuke it out of your life by saying your affirmations d...
JOHN DI LEMME
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS
It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES
It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free...
RICHARD ROHR
We have always said we will protect this from the plight of horrendous situations at other clubs who...
DAVID GOLD
...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise f...
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
HENRY KISSINGER
If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anythi...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN
If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and d...
OSCAR WILDE
Unmarried couples are at risk for potentially serious problems because their various financial accou...
DEBORAH DILLON
You have written that the best and the longest lasting victory over the enemy can be attained by hit...
RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread f...
MARTHA BECK
By all accounts we know there are no other international piano competitions in Missouri.
GARY DUNCAN
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any partic...
EUGEN HERRIGEL
Even if enemy warship sensors identify the missile, no warship can escape from this missile because ...
GEN. ALI FADAVI
...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break y...
PETER STRAUB
We have no indication that any of the information's been misused. We went back and monitored activit...
ANNE CROWLEY
This way, they can steal your identity or clean out your bank accounts.
ELLEN WRIGHT
Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many diff...
ANNA GUNN
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no ene...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
You don't have to cling to nothing and nobody actually. Life has oceans of pain and islands of happi...
MARIANA FULGER
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain...
T. D. JAKES
Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road wind...
ARTHUR BRYANT
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, t...
FEDERICO FELLINI
An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
If what appears little be universally despised, nothing greater can be attained; for all that is gre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt...
SUZE ORMAN
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a ...
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!
DAN BROWN
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be v...
KEN HAM
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chatteri...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the mind...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rig...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
I'm not saying that we are capable of that horror, but the knowledge of it is probably something tha...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partis...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and un...
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
Even ivory towers need central heating.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
At a time when we are trying to keep countries such as Iran from expanding their nuclear programs, i...
DAVID HAMILTON
In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nob...
NANCY KRESS
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...
ANNE CARSON
The federal government agencies abdicated their responsibility to protect these communities and thei...
BRAD SEWELL
This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accou...
CRAIG WATTS
I think you always have to be aware of where he (Young) is and not turn your back on him. Some teams...
A.J. HAWK
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full ...
WALTER BENJAMIN
In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at...
WAYNE LAPIERRE
A contract adhered to by only one side is one that is no contract at all. ... They're also ignoring ...
RICHARD SHOEMAKER
Nothing and no-one can raise our consciousness to a field of pure bliss unless we are open to the ti...
CHRISTOPHER DINES
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just beca...
STEVE MARABOLI
At least, nine out 10 people skip fees by paying their accounts on time.
DONALD OGILVIE
Hitting Rock bottom can be dangerous, because you may end up Unconscious!
RUSSELL WILLIAM MURPHY
Nobody, repeat nobody, that I've met from the major political parties in Colombo have raised any que...
CHRIS PATTEN
I don't know what it was. We came out and we weren't intent at all. We didn't get any stops. It just...
ANTHONY DREJAJ
At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.
AMIT RAY
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ...
PHILIP K. DICK
All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really de...
GEORGE ORWELL
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because,...
DAVE EGGERS
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET
Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in ...
BERNARD GOLDBERG
At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my h...
TAJ MAHAL
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to l...
BANANI RAY
Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improv...
SUSAN ORLEAN
It's dangerous and unnecessary, ... We need an absolute and public blanket ban on recruiting and use...
TERRY ANDERSON
In this universe nobody and nothing can know in which part of the road they are! At the beginning? A...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read...
RALPH NEAS
Life: What I came to realize in life so far is that fear, that’s its the worst of it. That’s the...
CHADWICK WEBB
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses a...
ERIC KANDEL
There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
We handed this administration the most favorable foreign policy cards of any administration since Wo...
DAN QUAYLE
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helples...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
By all accounts, it's been successful in Westminster and Southern Pennsylvania. It seems a good fit ...
BRIAN DITTO
Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and ...
SOPHIA AMORUSO
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than...
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO
Carbon dioxide is the one thing that we've done nothing about so far, from really any of our economy...
DAVID KEITH
It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the presen...
RAOUL PECK
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the str...
OS GUINNESS
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate ...
THOMAS J. WATSON
Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate ...
THOMAS J. WATSON
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We find this fiscal situation troublesome and urge your administration to follow the examples of pre...
THE CLARION-LEDGER
And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of ...
MALCOLM X
I know it would suck to be your enemy but I would much rather be your enemy than your friend because...
ANDONI GARCIA
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...
JACK KEROUAC
This is a case where the Bush administration doesn't need to spell out what they did and why they di...
LARRY SABATO
On 9/11, we were attacked by an enemy?. But there's no foreign enemy here. There's nobody to blame.
DAVID GERGEN
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them th...
THOMAS HARDY

More Breyten Breytenbach