Quotes 161 till 180 of 220.
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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The most dangerous thing is illusion.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p -
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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