Top 50 Menace Quotes

White-on-black shootings evoke America’s history of racism and so carry an iconic payload of menace. Black-on-black shootings carry no such payload, although they are truly menacing to the black community. They evoke only despair.

An artist must create. If she doesn’t, she will become a menace to society.

The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

When you’re a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

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.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

‘Menace II Society’ itself was a groundbreaking film. It’s definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.

If you’re gay and you can’t hold hands, or you’re black and you can’t catch a taxi, or you’re a woman and you can’t go into the park, you are aware there’s a menace. That’s costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

The animal birth control and anti-rabies programmes, which are under the threat of being altered or discontinued, need to be strengthened in order to address the issue of the stray dog menace.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

‘Phantom Menace’ was a huge project. It was the biggest visual effects production ever done at that point, and it was a little scary how big it was and how many unknown technologies had to be developed to do that work.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism. We obviously condemn all forms of terrorism; we should cooperate in facing the menace and stem it.

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

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.

The industry is a menace to artists.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization… It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

The Achilles’ heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in the name of fighting menaces like ‘systemic racism’ and ‘structural inequality.’

Anyone who feels I am going soft on the drugs menace has not checked out the facts nor seen the situation on the ground.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

In today’s interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ it is played for laughs.

There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter’s stature who dare raise their voices – and with such force – against the menace of U.S. and the unrestricted use of its power. Pinter’s voice is an unceasing thunder.

Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last ‘Harry Potter’ film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the ‘Population Monster.’

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 failures.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I’ve named her ‘Dolores,’ and she sings like an operatic menace.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.

Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.

The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.

The home is the center of life – a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

We have demolished the biggest hindrance to the development of Uttar Pradesh – the menace of casteism and dynastic politics. The epicentre of development is now villages, poor, farmers, youth, women, traders, and, in fact, every section of the society.

ISIL struck France because it is ‘free’ and ‘the nation of human rights’. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don’t have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France.

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.

I know I’ve got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it’s generally kept me working.

Politicians differ in their views whether Russia or Islamic State is a bigger menace, and I personally think that Islamic State is the bigger threat.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.