“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.” IfsWayWantLanguageSportsAbilityCrazyDangerousSeriousWeaponsAncientHarmViolentFighterCivilizedRomeFistsSymbolicGlovesAncient RomeAccentuateThrowback Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.” DoeSelfUseHandsLove IsDangerousSelf LoveInstrumentsHarmWounds Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.” EndsOrderDangerousHarmCustomsDogmaAttemptingMilitantOld Dog Author:Gore Vidal
“I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.” WantDifferentLawLosesBrainDangerousConceptsHarmLibertarianAspirationSmokingDiverseStoppingFree Society Author:James D. Watson
“Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia. But the biggest harm is currently caused by the decline of the prices for energy. We suffer dangerous revenue losses in our export of oil and gas, which we can partly compensate for elsewhere. But the whole thing also has a positive side: if you earn so many petrodollars - as we once did - that you can buy anything abroad, this slows down developments in your own country.” IfsCountryWholeSufferingEnergySidesLossDangerousPossibilityDevelopmentFinancialInternationalHarmOilRussiaGasElsewhereDeclineSlow DownRevenueSanctionsFinancial MarketsOil And Gas Author:Vladimir Putin
“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.” ThinkingWayKindGovernmentIndividualIssuesSecurityDangerousBalanceApproachPercentBurdenHarmTerroristEnormousPrivacyOur SocietyPrivacy And Security Author:Barack Obama
“It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.” PeopleKindReasonDoneCultureLeftInterestingDemocracyRightsTroubleDangerousPeriodsIntellectualCommitmentSickHarmCivilized1960sObedientTimes Of Trouble Author:Noam Chomsky