Dangerous Quotes

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Dreams can be dangerous things.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

Populism is dangerous.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lazy parent.

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

What's up, I'm DJ Danger. Some people might think it's dangerous to have an unbrella inside, but i am dangerous!

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

It's dangerous to short stocks.

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.