Alarm Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words alarm and/or conditions:

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)