Quotes about danger page 5
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946) primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
24 September 2015 http://www.pravmir.com/west-should-learn-from-russia-to-accept-muslim-refugees-patriarch-kirill/ at a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at his residence in Peredelkino, Moscow Region.
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Inspirations (1997), quoted in "Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists" https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-advice-young-artists/
“The greatest danger is always from the traitors amongst one's own ranks.”
David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon
Revolution by Number
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer
As quoted in "Michael Douglas: ‘I’m an optimistic guy I am going to beat this’" in The Palm Beach Post (16 September 2010) https://www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20100916/ENTERTAINMENT/812018115
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
Robert Oppenheimer et al., Report of the General Advisory Committee, 1949
“It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) playwright and writer
Source: A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Variant: I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live?
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816) ME 15:23 http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116907 <br class="br">1810s <br class="br">Context: We may say with truth and meaning that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)”
Darren Shan book Hunters of the Dusk
Source: Hunters of the Dusk
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Source: An Erotic Beyond: Sade
“the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Source: The Judges
Melissa Bank book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.”
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
Bart D. Ehrman (1955) American academic
Source: God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
Patrick Califia-Rice (1954) American writer
Variant: Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
“You are more dangerous than daybreak.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Babies were dangerous…
they made you fall in love before you knew
what was happening.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.”
Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist
Source: Insecure at Last
“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”
Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates
Source: The Wordy Shipmates
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Sunflower
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps”
James Gilligan American psychiatrist and author
“Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.”
Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot
Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless".
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Source: Moab Is My Washpot
Context: … but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.
“Books make dangerous devils out of women.”
Yxta Maya Murray (1970) American writer
Source: The Conquest
“Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: Stupid people are dangerous.
Source: The Hunger Games
“It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.”
Tess Gallagher (1943) American writer
Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time
“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Variant: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind
“War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.”
Carl von Clausewitz book On War
Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1.
Context: Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Captain's Fury
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”
Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
John F. Kennedy book Profiles in Courage
1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx <br class="br">Variant: A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. <br class="br">Source: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956) <br class="br">Context: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. <br class="br">Context: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men — such as the subjects of this book — have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
“I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
Nobel lecture (8 December 1980)
Context: Only if we assume that a poet constantly strives to liberate himself from borrowed styles in search for reality, is he dangerous. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. And, alas, a temptation to pronounce it, similar to an acute itching, becomes an obsession which doesn't allow one to think of anything else. That is why a poet chooses internal or external exile. It is not certain, however, that he is motivated exclusively by his concern with actuality. He may also desire to free himself from it and elsewhere, in other countries, on other shores, to recover, at least for short moments, his true vocation — which is to contemplate Being.
“Magic is dangerous - but love is more dangerous still”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
