Dangerous Quotes

The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

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

Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.