#threaten

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If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.


Paul Hawken


#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.


Gelsey Kirkland


#big #company #environment #expose #feel

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.


John McCain


#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.


Dennis Prager


#muslim #muslim world #religious #secular #threatened

I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.


Feisal Abdul Rauf


#because #dedicated #ever #expressed #i

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.


Alice S. Rossi


#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.


Archie Shepp


#culture #decade #existential #how #idea

Those who are made can be unmade.


Hilary Mantel


#life-lessons #made #threatening #life

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.


Maya Angelou


#ideals #incredible #men #prepared #their

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.


James A. Baldwin


#black #definitions #man #power #refuses