Danger Quotes

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Thehighest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink fromdanger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, winsthe splendid ultimate triumph.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

There is no little enemy

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

All extremes are dangerous.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.