Quotes with danger

  • The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
  • Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
  • What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
  • The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
  • There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
  • Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
  • Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
  • Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
  • He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
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  • Voltaire If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Jean Paul A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Pierre Corneille A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Jean Paul Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Euripides A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Seneca A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Vince Lombardi A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • C. S. Lewis And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
    Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Hyoi, p. 76
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Cosby Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Akhenaton As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bob Schieffer But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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