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

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.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.

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

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

A credit system, if used by the powers as an instrument of aggression against one another, shows the power of money in its most dangerous form.

Throughout history, humans have displayed an intense and dangerous fixation on maligning their adversaries as dirty, primitive, disease-carrying slime who deserve to be ostracized, shunned and isolated.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

It’s very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

All across the world, …increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

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.

There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment – all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.

Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I’m standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we’re not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.