Acting Quote by Adam Johnson

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Laura Lippman

“The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did…

— Stefan Zweig

“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to…

— Joseph Conrad

“sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive”

— Cesareo Bandera

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

The danger of course is always is caricature. The biggest challenge was to sound like Nelson Mandela. Everything else is easy to do, walk…

— Matt Damon

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“All humans were capable of atrocity. It was simply a matter of falling into a sequence of events that would drive them from timidity…

— Sean Platt

What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the…

— Hugo Black

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into…

— John Mortimer