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“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“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.”

People Should Mind Names Work Doubt Dangerous Taste Drug Prove Scientist No Doubt Destructive Fatigue Indulge Prove It

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.”

Simple Dangerous Taste Eating Meat Dishes Feeding Sauce

Author:Pliny the Elder

“The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.”

Art Can Do Dangerous Ignorance Taste Art Is Entertainment Immoral Dangerous Things Disgraceful

Book:Memoirs of Hecate County

Source: Memoirs of Hecate County

“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”

Needs Art Hands Government Certain Evil Nations Results Poverty Fashion Dangerous Pride Industry Taste Benefits Spring Infinite Convinced Vanity Neglect Laziness Politeness

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.”

Walks Dangerous Taste Solitude

Author:George Orwell

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

Littles Education Learning Dangerous Drink Taste Intellectual Spring Intelligence Dangerous Things Knowledge And Learning Knowledge Learning Little Knowledge Knowledge And Ignorance Deep Learning Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Alexander Pope

“Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.”

Trying Humans Kind Said Interesting Subjects Dangerous Taste Conversation Giants Vegetables Beans Steers Sophie Trying To Change

Author:Roald Dahl

“I won't get killed,' Rose protested. Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.' Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?' Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.”

Ifs World Want Believe Helping Break Subjects Dangerous Car Circumstances Promise Taste Responsible Rose Fishes Oil Tea Sugar Being Responsible Stirring You Again Don't Change Depriving

Author:Regina Doman

“Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.”

Source: Girl, Interrupted