These menace quotes will inspire you. Menace, something that is likely to cause harm or a person or thing that is likely to cause harm; a threat or danger.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging menace quotes, menace sayings, and menace proverbs.
Best Menace Quotes
- “The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” ~ Jean Kerr
- “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” ~ George Lucas
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“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.” ~ Frances Perkins
- “The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.” ~ Ida B. Wells
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“I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.” ~ Hugh Grant
- “The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.” ~ Norman Borlaug
- “I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” ~ Dorothy Dix
- “I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.” ~ Hugo Chavez
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“My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.” ~ Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
- “The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.” ~ Florence Kelley
- “The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.” ~ Gregory Corso
- “The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.” ~ Joyce Carol Oates
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“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.” ~ Grover Cleveland
- “Law not served by power is an illusion, but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.” ~ Arthur Goldberg
- “The industry is a menace to artists.” ~ Nikki Sixx
- “The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace – not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.” ~ J. William Fulbright
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“Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.” ~ Anthony Burgess
- “Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.” ~ Dave Barry
- “It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.” ~ Czeslaw Milosz
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“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.” ~ Albert Speer
- “The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.” ~ Josiah Strong
- “Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!” ~ Gilberto Hernandez , Dennis the menace quotes
- “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ~ George Lucas
- “The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.” ~ Brent Scowcroft
- “Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.” ~ Frank B. Kellogg
- “Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.” ~ George Haven Putnam
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“The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world” ~ George Sand
- “Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty-one is a menace to the community.” ~ Brigham Young
- “Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one’s poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed – but never the husband).” ~ James Thurber
- “Chatterers are a menace.” ~ Jeffrey Archer
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“Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.” ~ Margaret Sanger
- “America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now… we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- “It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.” ~ Wilfrid Sheed
- “I haven’t seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven’t seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it – see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.” ~ Lawrence Kasdan , Phantom menace quotes
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“I’ve worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.” ~ Gale Gordon
- “I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.” ~ Mitch Daniels
- “But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness – each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked – each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.” ~ Herbert Butterfield
- “I refer to the debt – the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.” ~ Mitch Daniels”The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.” ~ George Lucas
- “You can’t stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.” ~ Shmi Skywalker
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“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.” ~ George Lucas
- “I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.” ~ Dorothea Dix
- “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “What does your heart tell you?” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Now, be brave and don’t look back. Don’t look back.” ~ Shmi Skywalker
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“May the Force be with you.” ~ George Lucas
- “Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington’s huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.” ~ Paul Craig Roberts
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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“A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who’ve ever joined somebody else’s civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I quote one volunteer, Maury Colow of New York, who said, “for us it was never Franco, it was always Hitler.”” ~ Adam Hochschild
- “There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard-working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.” ~ Erich von Manstein
- “So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler’s recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this “peacefulness” of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the “peacefulness”.” ~ Joseph Stalin
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“The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Basically, when I hear it now, I don’t recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn’t seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I’m 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn’t trouble me that it doesn’t kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.” ~ Richard Meltzer
- “I was looking, a piece in the “L.A. Times” about a paper called “The Menace” back in 1915, that was railing against Catholics and it said all sorts of things about them. They are essentially a fifth column. They are crypto-fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with Romanists, that`s their term of Catholics, the Romanists will have to be taught their place in. Was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at Catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the American way of life?” ~ Chris Hayes
- “God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
