Dangerous Quotes
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A fool is very dangerous when in power.
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We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.
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A simple but stark criterion: the number of climbers who successfully reach the summit compared to the number who die on the mountain. For Everest, the ratio turns out to be seven to one. For K2, which has the reputation of being the hardest and most dangerous of the high peaks, the ratio is a little over three to one. But for Annapurna, it’s exactly two to one. For every two climbers who get to the top, one climber dies trying.
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Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
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There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
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I don't think that anything that anyone is doing today that is being pointed at as the "enemy" or "the problem" is as dangerous to our future as the fact that there are so many pointed fingers. The pointed finger is the enemy.
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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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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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I can't overlook any opponent because all fighters are dangerous. Every fighter is dangerous.
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Historians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
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The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.
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Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
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There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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We need to recognize the buildings that are the most dangerous and would cause the most loss of life. They need to be identified, then strengthened or replaced.
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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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Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
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He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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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.
