“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.” MeanEndsActionEvilConditionsDangerousMovementReflectionCapacityTransformingLead InRetrograde Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage” PeopleWorldShouldStatesProblemWould BeFacesLiteratureHalfTeachClearDangerousSkillsCapacitySatisfiedCartoonCrudeDegeneratesDrearyAcknowledgementApproximationPictorialRelapse Author:A. D. Patel
“And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary” ThinkingViolenceDangerousCapacityAdversariesUnafraidAfraid Of Death Author:Cillian Murphy
“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.” BelieveDangerousNewsCapacityWingsFoxesRight WingDangerous ThingsFox News Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?” ThinkingYearsStatesTodayGamesDangerousCapacityYears AgoLaysPsychologicalCaliforniaInfrastructureVergeMegaHonduras Author:Kevin Starr