A Slippery Slope Quotes

#1. Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope ... plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

Rick Santorum

#2. And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

Adam Scott

#3. I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

Halle Berry

#4. You get a good review, and it's like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it's a slippery slope.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Leon Kass

#6. Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Thomas Peterffy

#7. When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

John McCarthy

#8. In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

Carre Otis

#9. It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

Cornel West

#10. Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Dennis Ross

#11. All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

George Will

#12. Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do.

Lisa C. Temple

#13. The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

Alfred Alcorn

#14. Stay healthy is not a slippery slope toward unhealthy

Hugh Howey

#15. I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-demand services ... that maybe aren't having as much of a focus as they should on the worker.

Leah Busque

#16. Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Iain Banks

#17. There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Ken Ham

#18. The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

Mark Sundeen

#19. More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

Henry Rollins

#20. On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

J.J. Abrams

#21. I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

Errol Morris

#22. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.

Nenia Campbell

#23. Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

Jonathan Haidt

#24. Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.

Sara Humphreys

#25. And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

Kristen Stewart

#26. The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

Ron Wyden

#27. Believing you are a bad person leads to a slippery slope.

Dan Ariely

#28. I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.

Chelsea Handler

#29. Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

William A. Henry III

#30. Death always wins. Life is just a blip. It's a shiny, hyperactive blip, but a blip nonetheless, and no matter how strong or wily or rich a life may be, the slippery slope always leads to the great nothing.

Daniel Jose Older

#31. The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#32. We indulge in semantics and slippery-slope rhetoric to excuse injustice. We read a few verse about women in a vacuum of literalism and prideful laziness.

Sarah Bessey

#33. A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

#34. It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Jerry A. Fodor

#35. The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Gever Tulley

#36. Seven wonders of the world
and I have to ask for an eighth
fill a bottle with some prayers
and spend them on hope
create an easy route
just so I can complicate
send my heart down that
slippery slope

David Levithan

#37. You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope.

Mark Cuban

#39. There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan K. Simpson

#40. Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall

Kelly Barnhill

#41. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Ray Comfort

#42. Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

Stu Jackson

#43. Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

Lee Child

#44. Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a
slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and,
before you know it, Jager tainting.

Stephen Colbert