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“Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.”

Should Persons Use Quality Too Much Dangerous Please Spite Satire Refined

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.”

May Young Found Individual Nations Quality Mankind Dangerous Demand Degrees Jew Invention Exception Unusual Disgusting Stock Exchange

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.”

Ifs Men Mind States Play Seems Form United Quality United States Dangerous Intellectual Various Practicals Luxury Manifestation Indulgence Piety Playfulness

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.”

Men Persons Imagination Quality Dangerous Impression Vanity Flattery

Author:Jeremy Collier

“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”

Humans Turns Quality Dangerous Missing Emotional Keys Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Artificial

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.”

Ifs Real Quality Dangerous Words Of Wisdom

Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."”

World Country Quality Land Dangerous Danger Native Maxims Intoxication Native Land

Author:Bertrand Russell

“For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.”

People Ifs Ideas Done Behinds Quality Dangerous Keys Radical Evolve Boards Quests Not Interested Quality Of Life Dangerous Ideas

Author:David Livermore

“When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.”

People World Want Believe Facts Shows Might Lying Desire Belief Quality Doubt Dangerous Danger Deceit Remove Deceiving Pretension Good Quality

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable