Danger Quotes - page 3

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. (Edmund Burke)
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. View quote
Livy
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. View quote
John Dryden
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. View quote
Earl Warren
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. View quote
John Cheever
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen Keller)
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. View quote
Thucydides
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. View quote
Thomas More
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. View quote
John W. Campbell
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist. View quote
Michel Foucault
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. View quote
William Wordsworth
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. View quote
Mark Kingwell
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. View quote
Richard Stallman
Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.... View quote
Sukarno
Soldier rest thy warfare oer, Sleep the sleep thast knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. (Walter Scott)
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. View quote
Karl Marx
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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