Dangerous Quotes
3111 Dangerous quotes by 2099 unique authors
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Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.…
— Peter Drucker
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The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol…
— Sun Tzu
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
— J. William Fulbright
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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their…
— Hans Eysenck
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
— James Russell Lowell
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
— Adrienne Rich
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
— Rem Koolhaas
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
— Ambrose
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Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
— Unknown Author
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid…
— Lois Wyse
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know…
— Jonathan Kozol
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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with…
— Fran Lebowitz
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome,…
— William Penn
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
— Samuel Richardson
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[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only…
— Keith Olbermann
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It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened…
— Mary Heaton Vorse
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As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different…
— Barack Obama
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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
— John Selden
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
— John Calvin
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