Peril Quotes - Page 2

• Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

  John Dewey

  World, Thinker, Portions

  John Dewey (1958). “Experience and Nature”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Men, Connections, Passionate

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• A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

  Winston Churchill

  Patriotism, World War 2, Tradition

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

  John T. Flynn

  Country, Thinking, Unions

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• Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Blue, Cheesy

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• The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Boat

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

  Alfred Loisy

  Men, Support, Truth Is

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• Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Long, Soul

  Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Sides, Cooperation

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• As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give credence to the old Roman precept - if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Powerful, Military, War

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Military, War, Race

  Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler 'Mountbatten' (1985) ch. 52

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• Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

  John Creasey

  Book, Editors, Lunch

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• still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

  Thucydides

  Men, Design, Inward

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

  Herman Melville

  Obedience, Command, Needles

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.114

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• The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Danger, Inactivity, Overwork

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• Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Morning, Opportunity

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• You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Institutions, Institute

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.444, Modern Library

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• By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

  Homer

  Crooks, Hook, Remember

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.216, Macmillan

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• The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

  Simon Cowell

  Likes And Dislikes, People, Today

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Beneath The Surface, Symbols

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Today, Threat

  Speech accepting Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, 15 July 1960, in Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 1960, p. 611

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• The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Exercise, Rights

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• An audience who watches my shows knows who I am, knows that right when they think I'm going to make a joke, I'm going to blow something up, or during the worst peril, I'm going to have someone give someone a kiss - it's just going to happen.

  Joss Whedon

  Kissing, Blow, Thinking

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• Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  War, Faces, Murder

  "The Turkish Times", December 1, 1995.

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