Dangerous Quotes
3111 Dangerous quotes by 2099 unique authors
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Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
— Ambrose
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a…
— Albert Einstein
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I think she definitely played a great tournament here. I mean, she reached the final as a very young girl. I know she can be…
— Petra Kvitova
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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained…
— George Mason
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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous…
— Jeff Cooper
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
— George Santayana
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…
— K. Eric Drexler
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People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you start feeling separate…
— Rajneesh
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this…
— Patrick Macnee
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Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so…
— Paulo Coelho
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To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run…
— Zhuangzi
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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to…
— Lewis Mumford
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Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may…
— Samuel Adams
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There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the…
— Ronald Reagan
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I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
— George Washington
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
— William Hazlitt
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
— Eugene Ionesco
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Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
— Northrop Frye
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
— James Madison
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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know…
— John Steinbeck
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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
— Albert Einstein
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