Home / Topics / Dangerous Quotes

Dangerous Quotes

Browse 4748 quotes about Dangerous.

Dangerous Quotes

“I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.”

Home Dangerous Eating Drinking Fruit Careful Temptation Ice Heat Cream Ice Cream Juicy Cooling Eating And Drinking

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.”

People Ifs Facts Values Wealth Dangerous Profit Command Temptation Administration Expenses

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”

Desire Dangerous Habit Creatures Active Dues Flesh Lust Tendencies Temptation Flames Inaction Indolence Creatures Of Habit

Author:Sigrid Undset

“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.”

Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll

“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.”

Dangerous Fine Gay Skins Temptation Colour Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Book:Bible Commentary - Genesis

Source: Bible Commentary - Genesis

“The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.”

Mankind Dangerous Temptation Satan

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.”

Dangerous Bears Temptation Bothered

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.”

Religious Dangerous Return Treats Temptation Tramps

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.”

Mind Art Dangerous Danger Temptation Wander Invites Apartment Outcast Mansions Deserted Desolate Vacant Abode Inmates

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy