Quotes with dangerous

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  • Justice William O. Douglas Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Burt Rutan Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Still people are dangerous.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Alexis Carrel The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
    The C++ Programming Language p.9
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Huntington The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Bjork The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Sagan The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
    Essay as Mr. X (1969)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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