Hazards Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

— Douglas William Jerrold

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

— Francis Crick

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.

— John William Ward

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down.…

— Charles Dickens

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the…

— Samuel Johnson

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will…

— Robert Musil

“In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if…

— Salman Rushdie

If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence…

— Jacques Ellul