Top 37 Run Amok Quotes
#1. Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Thomas Sowell
#2. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
#3. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.
David Plotz
#4. Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,
and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.
Jay Woodman
#5. The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.
Allegra Goodman
#6. Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
Hal Rothman
#7. The consumerist cycle both depended on and strengthened capitalism, and thus worked to allay other postwar anxieties about nuclear attack and Communism, both of which had become linked to fears about the power of women's sexuality run amok.
Rebecca Traister
#8. There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Ron White
#9. We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.
Cornel West
#10. Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok.
-pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor The Demon's Daughter
Emma Holly
#12. New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.
Jonathan Trigell
#13. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner
#14. The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.
Alexis Ohanian
#15. The issue isn't gun control but state control
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.
George Jonas
#16. Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
Robert Bridges
#17. Stay out of this, Zebulon. (Dolophoni)
You guys come to my town, you don't call. You don't write. And you expect me to just let you run amok in front of the humans? Really, Deimos, don't tread here unless you want to bleed. (ZT)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.
Rand Paul
#19. The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.
Richard Corliss
#20. I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.
Sherry Thomas
#21. Like Alexis de Tocqueville, they feared unfettered democracy and believed totalitarianism was the natural consequence of mass democracy run amok. They
Kim R. Holmes
#22. There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
Joe Strummer
#23. Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Tom Scholz
#24. You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ...
Stefan Zweig
#25. Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.
Lewis Engel
#26. Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
Wole Soyinka
#27. That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok
Duncan Trussell
#28. After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.
Michael Hastings
#29. Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.
Pete Carril
#30. While hell can be a paralyzing doctrine, it can also be an energizing one, for it magnifies the beauty of the cross.
Francis Chan
#32. This world is full of dangerous beasts - but none quite as ugly and uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of Reason. He will run completely amok - like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling his contraband. Yes
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
Jim Crace
#35. You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want
William Zinsser
#36. God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.
Ralph Hodgson
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