Recklessness Quotes

• We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

  Toni Morrison

  Passion, Leisure, Violence

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.138, Random House

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• True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Cowardice, Middle

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• I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

  Nelson Mandela

  Assessment, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

  George Eliot

  Men, Infatuation, Consequence

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.716, Wordsworth Editions

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• The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

  James A. Garfield

  Character, People, Voting

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

  Colin Firth

  Love, Important, Want

  Elle Magazine Interview, www.firth.com. January 2004.

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Character

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Symbolism, Want

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• You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

  Don DeLillo

  Courage, Brave, Want

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Character, Intelligent

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• Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

  Thucydides

  Clever, Military, Adventure

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Sacrifice, Patterns, Kind

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• To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Despair, Helping

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.3, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.

  Dan Wells

  Determination, Fall, Responsibility

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

  Giovanni Falcone

  Important, Able, Ifs

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• If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.

  Richard Rohr

  Love, Christian, Heart

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• Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Fearlessness

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• The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.160

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• I am one, my liege,
  Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
  Have so incensed that I am reckless what
  I do to spite the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, World, Buffets

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

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• Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defence, Nonviolence, Property

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Revenge, Men, Risk

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications

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• I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Wings, Firsts, Leap

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.7, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

  Moliere

  Men, Matrimony, Repent

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Les Femmes Savantes (1672), V. 5, 1922.

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• Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

  Horace

  Carpe Diem, Seize The Day, Morrow

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• Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rip, Real, Snakes

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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