“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”

“In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.” 

"There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous."

“To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

“Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.” 

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.” 

“My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.” 

 “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine: it is lethal.” 

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.” 

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

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.

The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

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.