Dangerous Quotes

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

For true patriots to be silent, is dangerous.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Things like microphones are dangerous things because you never know when they might feedback and squeal.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

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.

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

It's always dangerous when boring people think they're creative.

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

I trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.