Quotes on Dangerous

I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

It was the nature of our relationship to be lusty and emotional, earthy and raw. The trust that held us together also opened us up to each other in ways that made us both vulnerable and dangerous. And it would get worse before it got better.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.