Quotes About Danger

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve što im se na?e na putu.

The Fremen are civil, educated and ignorant," Scytale said. "They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population. Even spoils systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands!

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.

Their destination was Sietch Tabr—Stilgar's sietch. She turned the word over in her mind: sietch. It was a Chakobsa word, unchanged from the old hunting language out of countless centuries. Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger. The profound implications of the word and the language were just beginning to register with her after the tension of their encounter.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde».

a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.

Desperate people are the most dangerous

A suposição de que um sistema inteiro pode ser levado a funcionar melhor com um ataque a seus elementos conscientes denuncia a atuação de uma perigosa ignorância. Essa tem sido em geral a abordagem daqueles que se dizem cientistas e tecnólogos.

people who live out there lives with a single fixed idea: Get them! It was a dangerous universe where such ideas were allowed to float around freely. Good civilizations took care that such ideas did not gain energy, did not even get a chance for birth. When they did occur, by chance or accident, they were to be diverted quickly because they tended to gather mass.

How careless his people had grown, Paul thought. They were millionaires of water—forgetful of the days when a man on Arrakis could have been killed for just an eighth share of the water in his body.

Do we not live in the shadow of the most dangerous creation the universe has ever seen? Dangerous creation… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!

Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá detenerles en su camino... Su movimiento es acelerado… rápido y más rápido. Dejan a un lado todos los obstáculos, y no piensan que un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde.

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

The religious commentary statement in Dune is the one that we've discussed earlier, that messiahs should come with a label on the forehead that reads, 'Caution, may be dangerous to your health.