#dangers

More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#appointed #because #country #dangers #following

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#country #endanger #endangers #entire #entire country

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil obedience, the submission of individual conscience to governmental authority. Such obedience led to the horrors we saw in totalitarian states, and in liberal states it led to the public's acceptance of war whenever the so-called democratic government decided on it... In such a world, the rule of law maintains things as they are. Therefore, to begin the process of change, to stop a war, to establish justice, it may be necessary to break the law, to commit acts of civil disobedience, as Southern black did, as antiwar protesters did. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#civil-disobedience #dangers-of-obedience #justice #oppression #rule-of-law

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#awe #banish #cannot #dangers #demean

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#dangers #fall #find #gone #i

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoided #better #dangers #destiny #exceeds

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#any #bureaucracy #concentrating #contemplates #creation

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

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A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

#also #continuing #dangers #expose #failings