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Dangerous Quotes
On the risks people choose to name out loud.
This page collects quotes that call out different kinds of danger - deferring too readily to experts, the real-world push to price carbon pollution as climate policy, and the everyday risks of oversharing on social platforms. See also Dangerous Thing.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
- Cloak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any one time, there are approximately 1.2 million fugitives at large in the United States - it is likely that approximately half a million of these are dangerous fugitives.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous place I've ever performed standup is in my home state of California.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020