Dangerous Quotes - Page 2

• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Lucky, Alive

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• In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, India, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.725, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Science, Merit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Thinking, President

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• Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

  Katharine Anthony

  Principles, Social, Form

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• Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

  Keith Henson

  Children, Errors, Trial And Error

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• Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

  Bill Condon

  Catholic, Church, Way

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• One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Past, Energy

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• The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Inclusiveness

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

  Jim C. Walton

  Organization, Cnn, News

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• He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

  Derek Jacobi

  Age, Painful, Particular

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• Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

  Don Van Vliet

  Animal, Men, Done

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• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  Andre Breton

  Atheism, Liberty, Danger

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• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Mad, Emperor

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• Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

  Anthony Anderson

  Believe, Thinking, Icons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Happiness, Success

  "Collected Essays, Vol. 2". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1998.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

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• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

  Edward Abbey

  Power, Anarchy, Worst

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  Carl Jung

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Effort, Training

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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