Dangerous Quotes:

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

topic: Dangerous

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

- Abby Sunderland

source: Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.145, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Sailor, Solo, Dangerous, Masts

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

- Abdallah II

topic: Underestimate, Dangerous

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

- Adam Levine

topic: World, Dangerous, Threat, Threatened

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

- Adam McKay

topic: People, Dangerous, Folks

Assumptions are dangerous things.

- Agatha Christie

source: David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

topic: Assumption, Dangerous

...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

- Aimee Friedman

topic: Secret, Promise, Dangerous

Life has to be dangerous.

- Alain Robert

source: "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". "Revealed" Interview, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

topic: Dangerous

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

- Alastair Cook

topic: Player, Doe, Dangerous, Allowing

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Thinking, Perfection, Dangerous, Fashion Designer

Liberty is dangerous.

- Albert Camus

topic: Liberty, Dangerous

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

- Albert Hofmann

source: "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2006.

topic: Dangerous, Contact

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

- Alexander von Humboldt

topic: World, Dangerous, Worldview

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

- Alexandra Bracken

source: Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.468, Hachette UK

topic: Monsters, Dangerous

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: People, Violence, Dangerous

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Lying, Dangerous, Danger In Life, Truth And Falsehood

In some causes silence is dangerous.

- Ambrose

source: "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.

topic: Silence, Causes, Dangerous

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

- Amy Grant

topic: Integrity, Sacrifice, Dangerous, Dangerous Places

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

- Andre Breton

topic: Liberty, Danger, Dangerous

The one thing that tackle wasn't was high and dangerous.

- Andy Gray

topic: Dangerous

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Too Much, Dangerous, Persons

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Life, Too Much, Dangerous

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: White, No Friends, Dangerous

How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Data, Reason, Dangerous

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Beast, Dangerous, Wounded

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

- August Strindberg

topic: People, Drink, Dangerous

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

- Barbara Cook

topic: Lying, Safety, Dangerous

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Seductive, Used, Dangerous

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

- Ben Mendelsohn

topic: People, Way, Dangerous, Fangs

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Two, Strategy, Dangerous, Chasms

Populism is dangerous.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

topic: Dangerous, Populism

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Names, Speech, Dangerous

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Two, Reason, Dangerous

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

- Bram Fischer

topic: Engagement, Duty, Dangerous

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

- Brené Brown

topic: Giving Up, Joy, Dangerous, Giving Up On Love

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

- Brené Brown

topic: Weakness, Dangerous, Myth

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

- Brent Scowcroft

topic: Islam, Elements, Dangerous

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Why Not, Given, Dangerous

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.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Cost, Dangerous, Impulse, Treacherous, Dangerous Things

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Ideas, Dangerous, Dangerous Ideas

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

- Caitlin Fitzgerald

source: Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hard Work, Years, Dangerous

If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats,.

- Carl Levin

source: "Powell slams media on Iraq WMD reports". www.cnn.com. June 9, 2003.

topic: Looks, Way, Dangerous

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

- Carl Rogers

topic: Different, Mental Health, Dangerous

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

- Carnie Wilson

topic: Stress, Just Being, Dangerous

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

source: Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.322, Pan Macmillan

topic: Way, Lost Hope, Dangerous

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Baseball, Practice, Dangerous, Inspirational Baseball, Batting

Dreams can be dangerous things.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Dangerous, James Carstairs

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Style, Dull, Dangerous

Success is always dangerous. It can make an ***** out of anybody.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Dangerous

The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

topic: Authority, Dangerous, Mankind

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

- Charles Simmons

topic: Wealth, Dangerous, Benevolence

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

- Cherrie Moraga

source: Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

topic: Damage, Dangerous

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

- Chetan Bhagat

topic: Female, Combination, Dangerous

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

- Christian Lous Lange

topic: Technology, Masters, Dangerous, Modern Technology, Advanced Technology

Any obsession is dangerous.

- Christina Ricci

source: "Hidden Depths". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

topic: Obsession, Dangerous, Mania

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

- Chuck Hagel

topic: People, World, Dangerous, Bad People

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

- Claire Danes

source: "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

topic: Good Movie, Deny, Dangerous, Undertakings

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

- Claude Debussy

topic: Crowds, Circus, Dangerous, Virtuoso

Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.

- Clive Hamilton

topic: Holocaust, Climate, Dangerous, Holocaust Deniers

We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

- Craig Shirley

topic: Dangerous

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

- Cynthia Heimel

topic: Dangerous

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Spiritual, Punishment, Dangerous, Smack

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

- Dan Brown

topic: Enemy, Dangerous

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

- Dan Brown

topic: Watches, Dangerous

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

- Daniel H. Wilson

source: Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dangerous, Unpredictable, Humans, Inscrutable

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

- Daniel H. Wilson

source: Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.253, Vintage

topic: People, Blind, Dangerous

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

- Daniel Hannan

source: FOX "Freedom Watch" with Judge Andrew Napolitano, April 29, 2009.

topic: Moral, Rectitude, Dangerous

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

- Darrell Huff

source: Darrell Huff (1993). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Emotional, Where You Are, Dangerous

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

- Darren Shan

topic: Hunters, Littles, Dangerous, Little Knowledge

The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one.

- Dave Courtney

topic: Brain, Dangerous

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

- David Bailey

source: "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

topic: Favour, Trendy, Dangerous

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

- David Baldacci

topic: Facts, Assumption, Dangerous

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

- David Gerrold

topic: Dangerous

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

- David Halberstam

topic: Dangerous

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

- David Lloyd George

topic: Two, Dangerous, Leap, Chasms

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.

- David Neeleman

topic: Might, Should, Dangerous, Packing, Checkpoints

Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?

- David Wong

source: David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.339, Titan Books

topic: Doors, Use, Dangerous

Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

- Demi Lovato

topic: Dangerous

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

- Denis Fonvizin

topic: Freedom, Fool, Dangerous

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

- Denis Healey

topic: Use, Politician, Dangerous, Surrogates

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

- Dennis Lindley

source: "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.

topic: Zero, Logical, Dangerous

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

- Dennis Potter

topic: Emotion, Dangerous, Instant

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

- Derek Jacobi

topic: Age, Painful, Dangerous

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

- Derek Jacobi

topic: Horse, Night, Dangerous, Working Late

Reading can be dangerous.

- Diane Setterfield

topic: Reading, Dangerous

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

- Dick Gregory

topic: Love Is, Lovable, Dangerous

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

- Don Marquis

topic: Female, Retreat, Dangerous

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

- Donald Antrim

source: Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

topic: Seductive, Dangerous

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

- Duke Ellington

topic: Art, Want, Dangerous

ideas are dangerous commodities.

- E. C. R. Lorac

source: E.C.R. Lorac (2015). “Murder by Matchlight”, p.25, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Ideas, Commodity, Dangerous

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

- E. J. Hughes

topic: Paint, Danger, Dangerous, Picturesque

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

- Eddie Alvarez

topic: Mma, Dangerous, Situation, Dangerous Situations

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

- Eddie Alvarez

topic: Mma, Dangerous, Situation

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Power, Dangerous, Worst, Power Corruption, Power Corrupts

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

- Edward Albee

topic: Art, Should, Dangerous

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

- Ehud Olmert

topic: Thinking, Iran, Dangerous

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

- Elena Anaya

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Complicated, Dangerous, Complicated Things

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Illusion, Vain, Dangerous

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Certain, Dangerous

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

source: Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

topic: Friendship, Jobs, Dangerous, Dangerous Jobs

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

- Elizabeth Bishop

source: Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.31, Macmillan

topic: Dream, Car, Dangerous

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Power, Void, Dangerous

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

- Elizabeth Ferrars

source: Elizabeth Ferrars (2014). “Experiment with Death”, p.26, Hachette UK

topic: Gratitude, Dangerous, Terrible

We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes,

- Elon Musk

topic: Needs, Nukes, Dangerous

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

- Elton John

source: "Elton John Thinks Miley Cyrus Is Like A Candle In The Wind", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

topic: People, Dangerous, Dangerous Places

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Atheism, Chains, Dangerous

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

- Emir Kusturica

source: "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

topic: Jobs, Dangerous, Center Of The Universe, Dangerous Jobs

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

- Enid Bagnold

source: Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

topic: Hate, Dangerous

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

- Erasmus Darwin

topic: Retirement, Dangerous, Drunkenness

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

- Erik Naggum

topic: Regret, Littles, Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Little Knowledge

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

- Erin Pizzey

topic: Men, Honest, Dangerous, Deceptive, Convoluted

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Dangerous

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

- Erwin McManus

source: Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.50, David C Cook

topic: Danger, Dangerous, God's Will

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

- Eugene Ionesco

topic: Writing, Mediocrity, Dangerous

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

- Evel Knievel

topic: Risk, Dangerous, Leap

Jeanine claims you're all dangerous Insurgents.

- Evelyn Eaton

topic: Claims, Dangerous, Insurgent

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

- Farley Mowat

topic: Canada, Harper, Dangerous, Local Government, Abuse Of Power

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

- Fisher Stevens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Tvs, Dangerous

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

- Francis M. Lyman

topic: Work, Brain, Dangerous

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Neutrality, Prey, Dangerous

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

- Francis Walsingham

topic: Historical, Dangerous, Security, Closed Mind, Resourceful

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Wish, Faults, Dangerous, Timidity

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Belief, Dangerous, Knowledge Is Dangerous

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: Gun, Dangerous

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

- Garrett Hardin

topic: Hubris, Potency, Dangerous

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

- Gary Lineker

topic: Trying, Fantastic, Dangerous, Broadcasters

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

- Gene Wilder

source: "Fictional character: Willy Wonka". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

topic: Littles, Surprise, Dangerous

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

source: "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

topic: Truth, Dangerous, Untruth

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Doubt, Dangerous, Vigilance

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Successful, Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Deluded

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Our Society, Belief, Dangerous, Suspension Of Disbelief

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Risk, Littles, Dangerous

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

- George R. R. Martin

source: George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.412, Bantam

topic: Enemy, Allies, Dangerous

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

- George Santayana

topic: Art, Philosophy, Dangerous, Inclusiveness

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

- George Washington

topic: Practice, Dangerous, Borrowing Money, Repayment

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Illusion, Danger, Dangerous

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

- Georges Pompidou

topic: Adults, Students, Dangerous

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

- Georgette Leblanc

source: Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

topic: Imagination, Danger, Dangerous

We like to kidnap them in a van, and take then somewhere dangerous... SURPRISE!!

- Gerard Way

topic: Surprise, Vans, Dangerous

Affectations can be dangerous.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Dangerous

Poetry is a dangerous gift ...

- Grace Aguilar

topic: Poetry, Dangerous, Poetry Is

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

- Graydon Carter

topic: Fashion, Children, Dangerous

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

- Greta Garbo

topic: People, Dangerous

Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Procrastination, Form, Dangerous, Human Error

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

- Gretel Ehrlich

topic: Rivers, Dangerous, Careless

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

- Gunter Grass

topic: Butterfly, Watches, Dangerous

Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.

- Hafez

topic: Letting Go, Dangerous

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

- Han Fei

topic: Dangerous, Rulers, Trust Others

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

- Harry Houdini

topic: Patient, Dangerous, Wells

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

- Heather Donahue

topic: Thinking, Danger, Dangerous

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

- Helen Oyeyemi

topic: Looks, Dangerous

Alfredo Di Stéfano was the greatest footballer of all time - far better even than Pelé. He was, simultaneously, the anchor in defence, the playmaker in midfield, and the most dangerous marksman in attack.

- Helenio Herrera

topic: Anchors, Dangerous, All Time

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

- Henry Norris Russell

topic: Conflict, Dangerous, Science And Religion

Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.

- Hermann Goring

topic: Enemy, Nazism, Dangerous

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

- Howard Stern

topic: Air, Hours, Dangerous

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

- Howard Zinn

source: Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.563, Seven Stories Press

topic: Should, Dangerous

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

topic: Creative, Reign, Dangerous

I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Thinking, Said, Dangerous

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic.  Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.  Be brave, be brave.

- Isak Dinesen

source: Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.55, Vintage

topic: Brave, Fantastic, Dangerous

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Sin, Born Again, Dangerous, Carelessness

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Life, False Hope, Dangerous

Washington's a dangerous place.

- Jack Abramoff

source: "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". "The Lobbyist's Playbook" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. May 30, 2012.

topic: Dangerous, Dangerous Places

Class envy is dangerous.

- Jack Abramoff

topic: Class, Envy, Dangerous

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be,

- Jack Goldstein

source: Jack Goldstein, Lionel Bovier (2002). “Jack Goldstein”

topic: Glamorous, Dangerous

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

- Jack Kuehler

topic: Thinking, Danger, Dangerous

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

- Jacqueline Carey

topic: Answers, Lord, Dangerous

There are some weapons that are just so dangerous that society has a right and the obligation even to take those weapons out of circulation.

- James Florio

topic: Gun, Weapons, Dangerous

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Ignorance, Intelligent, Dangerous, Insurrection

absolutes are absolutely dangerous ...

- James Tiptree Jr.

topic: Dangerous, Extremes

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.

- Jason Statham

source: Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

topic: Country, Way, Dangerous

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Comedy, Genre, Dangerous, Jolly, Thursday Next

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

- Jeanne Moreau

topic: Dangerous, Oneself

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

- Jeannette Walls

topic: Fall, Dangerous

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Dangerous, Evolve

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

- Jeff Corwin

topic: Animal, Thinking, Dangerous

There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.

- Jeffrey Wigand

topic: Numbers, Mainstream, Dangerous, Secondhand Smoke

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

- Jennifer Beals

source: PlanetOut Inc. Interview, 2004.

topic: Love Is, World, Dangerous, Murphys Law, Taliban

Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.

- Jennifer Lee Carrell

source: Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.111, Penguin

topic: Stupidity, Dangerous

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

- Jill Abramson

topic: Badass, Littles, Dangerous

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

- Jim Fowler

topic: Animal, Dangerous, Humans

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas...

- Jim Holt

topic: Ideas, Danger, Dangerous, Dangerous Ideas

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Strong, Weak, Dangerous, Weakening

If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.

- Jim Trelease

topic: Danger, Dangerous

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

- Jimmy Rushing

topic: Dangerous

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

- Jimmy Savile

topic: Men, Dangerous, Unwilling

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

- Jo Durie

topic: Player, Initiative, Dangerous, Counter Attack

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

- Joan Juliet Buck

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Writing, Doubt, Dangerous, Demented

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

- Jocelyn Murray

topic: Lions, Dangerous, Familiarity

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

- John Calvin

topic: Poverty, Prosperity, Dangerous, Blinded

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

- John Ciardi

topic: Library, Towns, Dangerous

All delays are dangerous in war.

- John Dryden

topic: War, Delay, Dangerous

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

- John Lyly

topic: Inward, Dangerous, Wounds

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Ideas, Evil, Dangerous, Vested Interests

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

- John Mearsheimer

source: John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Way, Facts, Dangerous

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

- John Mearsheimer

source: John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Army, States, Dangerous, Continental

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

- John Twelve Hawks

source: John Twelve Hawks (2008). “The Traveller”, p.205, Random House

topic: Interesting, Life Is, Dangerous

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

- Johnny Unitas

topic: Nfl, Dangerous, Diversification, Sad Feeling, Urban Planning

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

- Jonathan Carroll

topic: Writing, Trying, Dangerous

Extremes are dangerous.

- Jonathan Mayhew

source: Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

topic: Danger, Dangerous, Extremes

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

- Joseph Stalin

topic: Cannibalism, Form, Dangerous, Chauvinism, Bolshevism