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1 " You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! "
― Karen Marie Moning , Darkfever (Fever, #1)
2 " and if iif i ever let love gobecause the hatred and the whisperingsbecome a phantom dictate i o-bey in lieu of impulse and realities(the blossoming flamingos of mywild mimosa trees)then let love freeze meout.(from i must become a menace to my enemies) "
― June Jordan , Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
3 " To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "
― Theodore Roosevelt
4 " A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire. "
5 " Every change is a menace to stability. "
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World
6 " After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made. "
― John F. Kennedy , Prelude to Leadership: The Post-War Diary, Summer 1945
7 " A child is like a relationship. You can only shape it as it's growing, or it becomes a menace if let to grow without respect, understanding and focus. "
8 " A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. "
― Orson Scott Card , Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)
9 " A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times. "
― Steven Pinker , The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
10 " People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society. "
― Maria Semple , Where'd You Go, Bernadette
11 " The intolerant " true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself. "
12 " And just like that, as if I hadn't said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about the sinful nature the Jews possessed when killing their Lord Jesus. I didn't know if I was hearing this right because I had become so intoxicated, but I couldn't believe that anyone would talk about religion while on vacation. How could Miss Nebraska think this was a proper environment to discuss something so controversial? One woman went on to say that if she had her way not only would President Bush serve a second four-year term, but she hoped they would overturn Roe v. Wade. This woman was obviously a menace to society and needed to be stopped. "
― Chelsea Handler , My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
13 " Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant Southerner hates the Negro, the workingmen fear his competition, the money-makers wish to use him as a laborer, some of the educated see a menace in his upward development, while others—usually the sons of the masters—wish to help him to rise. "
― W.E.B. Du Bois , The Souls of Black Folk
14 " And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph to hope for. " Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess. "
15 " When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen as microorganisms, the human species looks like a menace to the planet. In fact, the human race is looking a lot like a disease -- comprised of organisms excessively multiplying, mindlessly consuming, and generating waste with little regard for the health and well-being of its host -- planet Earth. "
― , The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
16 " Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power. "
― Rollo May , The Courage to Create
17 " Of course many of us were loaded with self-hate and wanted to change. How could it have been otherwise? All we heard and read about homosexuality was that crap about how we were inverts, perverts, queers — a menace to children, poison to everybody else, doomed never to be happy. "
18 " People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society. "
19 " Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. "
20 " Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. "
