#threaten

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#ahead #competition #could #day #far

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#become #chinese #come #democracy #eventually

The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #safe #threatens

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#allows #also #chance #changes #constantly

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#deeper #ecology #economics #fundamental #held

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond. ↗

— Corey Hart

#any #aspirations #being #bond #career

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#essential #extreme #extreme poverty #freedoms #humane

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#exist #force #long #military #military force

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#does #economy #mean #only #our