Dangerous Quotes

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

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

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!