Dangerous Quotes
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
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There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.
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There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
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Do not allow yourselves to be cajoled into supposing that political apathy is dangerous. Dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are raised to power, not by apathy, but by mass fanaticism.
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
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At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
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There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
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A fool is very dangerous when in power.
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Historians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
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This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.
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However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
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Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.
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The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
