Best 961 quotes in «dangerous quotes» category

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.

Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Populism is dangerous.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

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

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could be very dangerous, particularly in an unhealthy relationship, where it could be a recipe for conflict, for something potentially violent that could lead to someone going to jail. There's so much pressure because of the criminalization and stigma. If we lifted that, it's only going to benefit more women.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

Silent people are dangerous; others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux; Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was...dangerous.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.