Dangerous Quotes

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

Yeah, well, ” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217

And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.

After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.

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.

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.