Slippery Slope Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

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.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

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

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.

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

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.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.