Dangerous Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dangerous Government Politics
If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. — Cornelius Nepos Copy Share Image
I'm not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I'm sure you would… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
