Dangerous Quotes

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

Being a woman anywhere is dangerous.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.