“Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
Existencilism (2002)
“Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksyhttp://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2018739.stm
Variant: Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist
Source: As remembered by Don Redelmeir, Michael Lewis, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Penguin, 2016 (ISBN 9780141983035).
Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
“There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.”
Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Responding to a question on whether he considered himself an atheist or an agnostic, in an interview at celebathiests.com (June 1996) http://web.archive.org/web/20061027073138/http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Tom_Lehrer <br class="br">Context: No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner