Quotes about danger
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“Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.”

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.”

Robert F. Kennedy book The Pursuit of Justice

The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. <br class="br">" Extremism, Left and Right http://books.google.com/books?id=o3mHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+objectionable+what+is+dangerous+about+extremists+is+not+that+they+are+extreme+but+that+they+are+intolerant%22+%22evil+is+not+what+they+say+about+their+cause+but%22&pg=PA68#v=onepage," The Pursuit of Justice, pt. 3 (1964)

“I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

Edwidge Danticat (1969) Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Life, People, Reading, Parting

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”

James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name

Imagination, Heart

“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

“Thankfully I’m not most women. I don’t get off on danger. I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Women, Strong

“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that."
-Julian”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Chase

Love, Death, Game, Parting

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

Life, Death, Fear, Art

“I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

World, Beauty, Tree, Suffering

“Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Education, Thinking

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

Richard Louv (1949) American journalist

World, Time, Personality

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.”

Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher

Propos sur le Religion no. 74 (1938), under the pen name Alain. <br class="br">Alternate translation: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.” IZQuotes https://izquotes.com/quote/%C3%A9mile-chartier/nothing-is-more-dangerous-than-an-idea-when-you-have-only-one-idea-390165 (retrieved 10/30/18).

Idea

“Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.”

Garth Nix book Lady Friday

Source: Lady Friday

Knowledge, Thinking

“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

World

“I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.”

Philippa Gregory book The Queen's Fool

Source: The Queen's Fool

Travel, Imagination, Help, Country

“Thatʹs a dangerous look,ʺ said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
ʺWhat look?ʺ I asked innocently.
ʺThe one that says you just got some idea.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Variant: That's a dangerous look," said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road.
"What look?" I asked innocently.
"The one that says you just got some idea."
"I didn't just get an idea. I got aidea.
Source: Last Sacrifice

Idea

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Love, Happiness, People, World

“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Love

“You know, those parlor tricks would be much more impressive if they actually helped me. (Danger)
I wanted to see what you had in you. (Alexion)
Piss and vinegar. Next time you don’t help me, I’ll unleash it fully against you. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Time, Help

“Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he’s busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what’s happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Life, Business, Joy

“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Art of Travel

Travel, Chance, Time

“Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Life, Fear, Help, Parting

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

Michel Houellebecq book Platform

Source: Platform

Life, Reading

“Love is a dangerous angel.”

Francesca Lia Block Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

Love, Angels

“The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions”

Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…

People

“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”

Aung San Suu Kyi book Letters from Burma

Source: Letters from Burma

Democracy

“I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Nature, Drawing, Wealth

“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.”

Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) Swiss chemist

As quoted in "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders his 'Problem Child." (7 January 2006)
Context: It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.

Nature

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Variant: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Source: Brave New World

God, Freedom

“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Way, Strong

“Common danger made common friends”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Death, Women, Sport, Football

“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Life, War

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Hate, Anger

“The curious are always in some danger.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

“I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.”

Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle

Source: The Hidden Oracle

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

Thinking

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

Sadness

“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

World, Help, Madness

“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

People

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about :…”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe

Fear, Evil, Time

“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”

Milan Kundera book The Festival of Insignificance

Source: The Festival of Insignificance

World, Time

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

Feeling

“Isn't there something in living dangerously?”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Men, Success

“I can't drive."
"I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently.
At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered.
Which meant… number one! (Sabine)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Confidence

“Intelligent men are dangerous.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Bones

Men, Intelligence

“I will not hang back here in Alicante while Magnus is in danger. Go without me, and you disrespect our parabatai oaths, you disrespect me as a shadowhunter, and you disrespect the fact that this is my battle too.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: The Beast God Forgot to Invent

Life

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Arkadians

People, Knowledge, Evil, Change

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

Knowledge, Training, Madness

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Sense

“Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger

-Septimus Heap”

Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator

Beauty

“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Guy, Parting

“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

Victory

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”

Judith Lewis Herman (1942) American psychiatrist

Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous.”
“What’s she going to have—an assault weapon?”
“Worse,” I say. “She’s got magical powers.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

“For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Youth, Dependency

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”

Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

People, Idea

“James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“I mean it," I said. "You're in danger."

"Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love, Passion, Evil

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”

Stacy Schiff (1961) American female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

Education

“Han smiled, then, a bright, charming smile that lit up the room, more dangerous than any blade.
All you ever needed was that smile, she thought. I'd have given in immediately.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

Smile

“Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.”

Frank McCourt book Teacher Man

Source: Teacher Man

World, Business, Thinking, Sun

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Life, Death, People, Fear

“Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Thinking, Nostalgia, Memory

“Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?”

Richard Adams book The Plague Dogs

Source: The Plague Dogs (1977)

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

Men

“A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States

Letter to the Daily Advertiser http://books.google.com/books?ei=dUcWTpuaHsT0gAfPpeEL&ct=result&dq=&jtp=245&id=x5q-cszpoPYC&ots=j0QS9L0jfK#v=onepage&q&f=false (21 February 1797)