Danger Quotes - Page 13

• The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Self, Deception, Mind

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Temptation, Age, Weakness

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  People, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial

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• Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, People, Church

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.99, Transaction Publishers

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• The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Absence, Orthodox

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, Lying, Opportunity

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Brave, Capes

  Herman Melville (2015). “White Jacket, the World on a Man-of-War: Works of Melville”, p.85, 谷月社

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• When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Humans, Human Beings

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• The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Memories, Lying, Grandchildren

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

  Lin Yutang

  Wild Geese, Might, Too Much

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

  Robertson Davies

  Mind, Desire, Body

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• Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Suffering, Warning, Destructive

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mind, Trying, Goodness

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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• The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Punishment, People

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• Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

  Georges Bernanos

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Speech in East Berlin, October 07, 1989.

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• It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Father, Book, Sacrifice

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.

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• I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

  GG Allin

  Rocks, Law, Trying

  "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies". Documentary, Biography, Music, 1993.

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• Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Men, Animal, Generosity

  Leonid Andreyev (2007). “The Seven That Were Hanged”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

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• If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Illustration, Weakness, Nails

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Safety, Community

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.194

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