“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers
Source: Starship Troopers
“All men are dangerous.”
"Keep the Faith" (2006)
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British artist and activist 1963Related quotes
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“In truth, men speak too much of danger.”
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Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
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“Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Wisdom.
Table Talk (1689)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)
1770s
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”
Voltaire Le Siècle de Louis XIV
Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.
"Catalogue pour la plupart des écrivains français qui ont paru dans Le Siècle de Louis XIV, pour servir à l'histoire littéraire de ce temps," Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1752)
The most frequently attributed variant of this quote is: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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