Danger Quote by Thucydides

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

— Anonymous

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

— Joseph Stalin

One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.

— Joseph Brodsky

None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of…

— Brennan Manning

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

— Clint Eastwood

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you…

— John C. Calhoun

Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial…

— Seth Klarman

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

— David Sedaris

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

— Laura Lippman

This is the problem with the world today: Nobody wants to take risks, to risk being themselves.

— Giorgio Armani

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

— Robert Kiyosaki

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb