Danger Quotes

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

I've been in the danger zone

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.