Quotessence
Home / Topics / Dangerous Quotes

Dangerous Quotes

Browse 4748 quotes about Dangerous.

Related topics

PeopleThinkingIfsWorldMenKnowsDangerous ThingsDangerWayWantShouldTryingIdeasBelieveLittlesHumansMayCountryKindWellsStatesFeelsGovernmentEnemyLooksSaidMindPersonsGivingNeedsFirstsWarMeanHas BeensDoePoliticalUseFactsHandsWould BeMadeDangerous PlacesReasonSometimesChildrenRiskLongRealWritingMightSeemsYearsDifficultStillsFeelingsEndsSelfTwoArtEvilAmericaHeartSituationWeaponsRunningHardSafeForceFormYoungBookTodayImportantMomentsPlayRealityAnimalCertainDifferentDonePowerfulCoursesLibertyDrugHappensPresidentSecurityDemocracyEnoughLife IsMatterLyingNationsActionBeliefDarkEyeHelpingHomeOrdermore

Dangerous Quotes

“It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.”

WorldNeedsShouldHumansHeartSoulActorsWorstDangerousTheaterStriveTheatreDesertIronyDreamerHuman SoulDangerous Places
Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
Create image

“Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.”

ShouldAbleBrainEffectsDangerousProduceProveMentorEloquenceOratorsDiffidenceCounsellors
Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
Create image

“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”

IfsMenShouldMayMeanDesireHonestDangerousHatredEvery ManEndeavorTemperProvokingGood WillEnmityDesire To Live
Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author
Create image

“A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic”

PeopleShouldBelieveHandsGovernmentFallWealthHalfDangerousWillingNeededCitizensPoliticianDemocraticPainfulEnormousPreservesVotersRepublicArbitraryPollsDemocratic Republic
Author:Thomas Sowell
Create image

“In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.”

WorldShouldMindMayHas BeensBookFailingConditionsDangerousVictorySucceedWorshipUltimateAimExcellenceInstinctAccomplishArroganceUrgesAttributesRelianceSteadfast
Book:The Principles of Success in Literature
Create image

“Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.”

PeopleShouldMindNamesWorkDoubtDangerousTasteDrugProveScientistNo DoubtDestructiveFatigueIndulgeProve It
Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
Create image

“My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.”

ShouldInterestAnimalLordLandMankindDangerousProduceDependsLaysSpeciesStartingDearLawyerAssThickDependenceCropsVaryDisagreementManureVarianceDear Lord
Author:Charles Macklin
Create image

“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

IfsShouldSeemsPastLyingFallFunLove YouDangerousGreatnessTearsHabitMy FamilyPressesFalling In LoveJournalistBeastWeekendMondayFridayLiving In The PastNever Fall In Love
Author:Stephen L. Carter
Create image

“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.”

NeedsShouldBelieveMayCountryDoneEnergyI BelieveChallengesTechnologyDangerousProduceTomorrowStrategyCome UpNuclearNuclear Energy
Author:Tom Vilsack
Create image

“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

IfsShouldBigsHappensSpiritualProcessGoalGrowthPayFeetDangerousMountainLaysPersonal GrowthGuidesCompromiseFixedClimbsPushingClimbingLoadPullingSoloOxygenRopeLaddersEverestSherpas
Author:Yvon Chouinard
Create image

“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.”

MenShouldMadeDesireDangerousPleaseConcernedBlessedProfessionReputationBotherFaithfulRisingPreacherBondageDangerous ThingsCastaway
Author:Vance Havner
Create image

“Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”

FeelsShouldRealDealsFictionFantasyDangerousBearsSafeInsanityDragonsWildernessMysticismCommoners
Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
Create image

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

MenShouldLightCommonTalentDangerousPrideProudHonorFameTreatsMereRateWitVainLastingShadeFadesImprovingDisdainLaurels
Book:The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume
Create image

“I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.”

KnowsMenGivingShouldTwoProblemAgeRaceKnow HowFiveTeamDangerousPolicyCoupleSixAdvantageMarkRoundsSoccerChampionshipStrainMarathonRivalsYoungstersX MenNucleus
Author:Bob Paisley
Create image

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

ShouldMayDoePhilosophyUseBodyBlackWhiteWalksSunDangerousFitExerciseClothesSeasonsHotWestClimateSoldierEastHeatLabourMarchRadiationUniformsFeverSunnySeamenWest IndiesBlack Clothes
Book:The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes
Create image

“When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.”

MenShouldChildrenWarHandsRememberPurposeThreeForceMoralFateMankindDangerousDevelopmentToolsDestructionPatiencePatientEngagedDestructiveExploitationConquestCondemnationRazorsHingesForces Of NatureInventivenessMoral Development
Author:Albert Einstein
Create image

“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

PeopleKnowsShouldSeemsGovernmentMightYoungSocialCommunityHurtEducationPrinciplesDemocracyDangerousTheoryCivilizationEssentialsLogicDemocraticIgnorantDenialPreservationFree GovernmentDiffusionKnowledge And LearningSocial Theory
Book:Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
Create image

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldWellsLooksLightCareWantedLyingHopeStarsCausesDarknessTreeCrazyDangerousExampleDiscoveryEternityCloudsJust OneIf I CouldBud
Author:Garrett Fort
Create image

“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
Create image

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”

ShouldIdeasSoulLeftSpeakBlackTakenInfluenceDangerousRevolutionSakeObviousFavorsScalesSmallestSymptomsObjectionsRespectabilityPlacid
Book:Art & ardor: essays
Create image

“However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the part of the Earth where it actually struck; perhaps even we might cry quits if while one kingdom were devastated, the rest of the Earth were to enjoy the rarities which a body which came from so far might bring it. Perhaps we should be very surprised to find that the debris of these masses that we despised were formed of gold and diamonds; but who would be the most astonished, we, or the comet-dwellers, who would be cast on our Earth? What strange being each would find the other!”

IfsShouldBodyMightWould BeEarthEnjoyDangerousCryStrangeMassGoldCastsQuittingKingdomsAliensDamageShockDiamondDespisedDevastatedCometsDebrisRarityDwellersGold And Diamonds
Author:Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Create image

“Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?”

ShouldHumansChildrenStillsGovernmentLevelsKnownRiskDangerousEnvironmentalDecadesCaliforniaPollutionGrainLinkedPotatoesBananasExposingHigh RiskLeukemiaEpa
Author:Al Meyerhoff
Create image

“Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.”

ShouldHumansPersonsLongReasonLife IsAsksFoundFriendshipLossDangerousSeriousFriendsCastsHuman LifeAbandonPossessedCompelledChillTossSerious Things
Author:Thomas Moore
Create image

“I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.”

WorldShouldBelieveChoicesI BelieveDangerousCitizensWeaponsGunShould HaveStringsRocketsNon ViolenceAmmunitionBazookas
Author:Scott Adams
Create image