Dangerous Quotes

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

Live, Evil, Place

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Nothing

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Dreams, Men, May

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Nothing

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson

Standing, Banking, Liberties

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, Fire, Reason

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Ignorance, False

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

True, Woman, Two

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell

Stupid, Hard, Wrong

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Once

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Sincerity, Deal

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Law, Guilty

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

Temptation, Virtue, Loving

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Able, Lives

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell

Trust, Failure, Common

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West

May, Won, Curves

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
Robert Kennedy

Evil, Cause, Extreme

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lies, Foes

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Character, Evening

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.
Charlie Sheen

Good, Here, Realize

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Fight, Battle

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning, Risk, Hold

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

Stupid, Unless, Sincere

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, Conscience, Bigot

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Men, Happen, Old

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Thought, Nonsense

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