Dangerous Quotes - Page 15

• [There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

  Anthony Daniels

  Class, Educated, Idle

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• A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.

  Edward Gibbon

  Justice, Abuse, Arbitrary

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V4: the History Focus”, p.186, 谷月社

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• I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

  Nicole Kidman

  Interesting, Comfort, Safe

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• The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

  Charles A. Murray

  Support, Enemy, Taxation

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• All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

  Aldous Huxley

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Hippie, School

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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• It was dangerous stuff. We were running on top of moving trains. We got to do amazing things. I like doing stuff like that. I enjoy it. But believe me, there were things that were so dangerous that I wasn't touching them.

  James Badge Dale

  Running, Believe, Moving

  Source: collider.com

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• As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

  David Slade

  Trying, Way, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.

  Barack Obama

  Sky, Fuel, Earth

  "Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline and hails US as leader on climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg and Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Ideas, People

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• Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Investment Success, Self

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• When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

  Seth Klarman

  Creating, Dangerous Situations, Government

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• The latest trade of a security creates a dangerous illusion that its market price approximates its true value. This mirage is especially dangerous during periods of market exuberance. The concept of "private market value" as an anchor to the proper valuation of a business can also be greatly skewed during ebullient times and should always be considered with a healthy degree of skepticism.

  Seth Klarman

  Anchors, Healthy, Degrees

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• Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

  Seth Klarman

  Stress, Government, Weather

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• At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Policy Making, Sublime

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown

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• It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

  Louise Penny

  Belief, Persons

  Louise Penny (2012). “The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.

  Erwin Rommel

  Upset, Black, Looks

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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• Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

  David Platt

  Taken, Reason, Easy

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2015

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• I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wise, Sweat, Upset

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• Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Different, World

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Teacher, Art

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• We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

  Charles Koch

  Government, Loser, Winner

  "Charles G. Koch: Corporate Cronyism Harms America". "The Wall Street Journal", September 9, 2012.

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• Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

  James Cook

  Religious, Criminals, Danger

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