The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil

War is the province of danger.
Karl Von Clausewitz

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick Cheney

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Jawaharlal Nehru

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
Daniel Boone

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
Randy Harrison

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
Sean Hannity

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Frank Herbert

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
Jurgen Habermas