Quotes
Quotes about Danger
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung,
Not she denied him with unholy tongue;
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave,
Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.
Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river.
Delay always breeds danger.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
It is always dangerous to over-generalise
All art is risk and I think we have to accept that risk, hence accept living dangerously
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Immediate danger. Let danger always be immediate. It is a sound thesis. Let us defend ourselves before we are attacked
We must learn to distinguish between the vague sense of danger and the ultimate catastrophy itself
We must learn to distinguish between the vague sense of danger and the ultimate catastrophe itself
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
