Danger Quotes - Page 33

• There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

  Halford Luccock

  Character, Personality, Horizon

  "Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons". Book by Halford Edward Luccock, p. 83, 1952.

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• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  Stewart Udall

  Two, Risk, Insightful

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• The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Passion, Soul

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• The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Intellectual, Monsters

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished...It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.

  Hugo Black

  Taken, Evil, Justice

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, Coward, Insult

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• The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, People, Way

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352

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• Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wise, Violence, May

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• The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Loss, Degrees

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

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• Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, France

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Solitude, Alone Life

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• In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.

  Frederic C. Howe

  War, Taken, Men

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• Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Lying, Risk

  "Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.

  B. C. Forbes

  Letting Go, War, Animal

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• We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Lying, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.349, eKitap Projesi

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• as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Patience, Years, Rushing

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• The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Opportunity, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.316, Hoover Press

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• Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

  Publilius Syrus

  Treats, Contempt

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• He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Safety

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• The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Shunning, Overcoming, Virtuous Woman

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• The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Care, Safe, Divine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1623, Barbour Publishing

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