"You have but to know an object by……" — Elias Canetti
"You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic."
More Dangerous Quotes
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous. — Michele Bachmann
- Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. — David Bailey
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:… — Russell Baker
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and… — Edward Abbey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. — Edward Abbey
- I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm… — Antonio Banderas
- The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — Edward Abbey
- Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat… — Neal Barnard