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“The world is a dangerous place to live”

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Book:Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

Source: Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

“We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.”

Source: Greek and Roman Lives

“There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.”

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Book:History as Literature and Other Essays

Source: History as Literature and Other Essays

“There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."”

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Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.”

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Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.”

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Author:Phillip Adams

“There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.”

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Book:Speeches and Forensic Arguments

Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments

“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”

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Book:Method and Results: Essays

Source: Method and Results: Essays

“The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.”

“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'”

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Book:The Quotable Abigail Adams

Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”