Dangerous Quotes

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.