Dangerous Quotes
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In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)
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Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
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A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.
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It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .
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A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.
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Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.
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Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
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I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6
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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
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It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.
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Prejudice is always dangerous.
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The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
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Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
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Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of group-think than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter, the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.
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We know - or should know - what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A 'race card' is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
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The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWW…Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!
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A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.
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These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
