Best 961 quotes in «dangerous quotes» category

Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn't know he's wrong?

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?" - Vaughn to Faith

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation in North Korea has become. I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to China's interests as well.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.