“It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.” IfsMenDangerousSkinsPaidNeighborSavedHeelsSuperiorityDangerous Things Author:Christoph Martin Wieland
“We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true; because even if it is true you can easily overvalue the security, since you make it worth anything you want it to be worth. Beyond this, it is particularly dangerous too, because sometimes your ideas of the future turn out to be wrong. Then you have paid an awful lot for a future that isn't there. Your position then is pretty bad.” IfsWantTryingHas BeensIdeasSometimesTurnsSecurityDangerousPositionConceptsPaidAwfulTrue You Book:Current problems in security analysis Source: Current problems in security analysis
“An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.” WorldEyeAudienceStageDangerousColdPaidCastsSecureDangerous ThingsCold Eyes Author:Christopher Walken
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?” ThinkingKnowsMenBookEndsFallRealizingCuttingGroupsDangerousRevolutionQuietSittingPaidLibraryAssMessBudgetsDesksFalling ApartLibrarianSubversiveBudget Cuts Author:Michael Moore
“Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.” BigsNextPracticeGenerationsDangerousStandingArmyPaidSpendingStealingNext GenerationBorrowingSpending Money Author:Thomas Jefferson
“This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.” PeopleThinkingTwoWarBigsPartyCompanyDangerousIntegrityDeservePaidCorporateGiantsFuelStringsFossilsFossil FuelInsurance Companies Author:Jill Stein
“Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.” WorldKindDoneDestinySpecialDangerousMetsConscienceFunctionPaidMajorityLuxuryIslamicReachingAlsVery HappySufiAntithesisExecutionersWorldliness Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr