Dangerous Quotes
3111 Dangerous quotes by 2099 unique authors
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
— William Sloane Coffin
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Still people are dangerous.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness has to be…
— Rajneesh
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Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all that is being…
— Rajneesh
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
— Agnes Repplier
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
— Tacitus
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Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit…
— Wes Fesler
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
— Samuel Gompers
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
— Charles Manson
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
— Phyllis Bottome
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
— Robert Herrick
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
— Quintilian
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
— Matt Drudge
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
— Samuel Johnson
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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to…
— Esther Dyson
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating…
— William O. Douglas
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Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
— William O. Douglas
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We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy…
— Katharine Graham
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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