Dangerous Quotes

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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

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

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.

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!

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.