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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Danger First Help Innovation May Men Revolution Theory Trouble
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Sun Ra
Danger World
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Philip Sidney
Beginning Bravery Danger Knight
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Danger Idleness Life Man People Reading Solitude Women
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you’re not being spontaneous, you’re just recreating something.
Karl Urban
Being Danger Film Inspiration Losing Television Want Work
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Publilius Syrus
Danger Safety
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Danger Man Play Reason Woman
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
Attitude Conflict Danger Family Focus Interest Potential
I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Danger Islam
The real danger of writing a great song when you’re on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you’re high.
Barry Mann
Danger Song Thinking Writing
The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.
Hillary Clinton
Countries Danger Information National security People Problems states United Work
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis Auchincloss
Danger Genius Literary Will
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins
Danger Enemy Self Society
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
Alan Dean Foster
Danger Dawn Evil Lies People Today
What’s sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That’s the danger of celebrity.
Giovanni Ribisi
Celebrity Danger Quality
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there’s a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
Randy Harrison
Actor Being Danger Want
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we’re training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
Otto Schily
Afghanistan Danger Force Military Police Training Zone
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson
American Class Danger Deep Desire Fact Land Leaders Peace Propaganda
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Christopher Lasch
Danger
I’ve got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.
Mark Kirk
American Danger Debt Dream Now Past
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
Ludwig Quidde
Danger Grave
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
Comfort Danger Fact Family Idols Independence Lies Life People Pleasure Society
It wouldn’t sit easily on one’s conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let’s dispense these drugs.
Thabo Mbeki
Conscience Danger Drugs
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
Danger Liberty
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
Danger Fear Music
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Danger Life May
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
Jurgen Habermas
Danger Terrorism Uncertainty
Armaments are necessary – or are maintained on the pretext of necessity – because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Ludwig Quidde
Danger Necessity War
The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they’ll reach the same conclusions that haven’t traded as long, don’t have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
Jim Cramer
Danger Information Now People Right
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin
Danger Wife
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris
Computers Danger Men Will
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
Danger Glory Vision
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
Danger Now Time
Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.
Marvin Harris
Danger Now World
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson
Civilization Danger Nations Oppression Peace People War
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
Danger Glory Victory
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
Edmond About
Conversation Danger Name
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Johann G. Hamann
Being Danger Day Today Tomorrow Writer
There’s a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
Matt Drudge
Attention Danger Internet Ugly
The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don’t do any more work on safety. That shouldn’t happen.
Damon Hill
Danger Safety Work
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Courage Danger
The Internet’s kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
Sean Booth
Danger Disease Heart Internet Pretty
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Danger Grave Idealism Interest Nations
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in ’99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.
Curt Weldon
Danger Military Planning
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
Jean Genet
Boldness Danger Lying Name Violence
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
Ludwig Quidde
Danger Distrust Logic Military Security War Will
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
Danger Fear
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you’ve probably waited too long.
John Sununu
Danger Present states United Weapons
One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today’s kids are much more materialistic and there’s a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.
Michael Aspel
Age Danger Experts First Interest Kids Today
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Battle Courage Danger
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