Dangerous Quotes - Page 2

• They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Learning, Ignorance

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, Random House

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Witty, Stupid

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Future, Science, Merit

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Mad, Emperor

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• One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

  Don Van Vliet

  Animal, Men, Done

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• Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

  Katharine Anthony

  Principles, Social, Form

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• Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

  Keith Henson

  Children, Errors, Trial And Error

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• Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

  Bill Condon

  Catholic, Church, Way

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• Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

  Anthony Anderson

  Believe, Thinking, Icons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Past, Energy

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• The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Inclusiveness

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  Andre Breton

  Atheism, Liberty, Danger

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• The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Thinking, President

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• CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

  Jim C. Walton

  Organization, Cnn, News

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• He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

  Derek Jacobi

  Age, Painful, Particular

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• The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Happiness, Success

  "Collected Essays, Vol. 2". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1998.

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, History, Nuclear Missiles

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

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• Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

  Edward Abbey

  Power, Anarchy, Worst

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Political, Cynical

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Effort, Training

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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