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Quotes About Danger

El resultado de predicar doctrinas totalitarias es que debilita el instinto que indica a las personas libres lo que es peligroso y lo que no.
~ George Orwell
Ayaktak?m? öyle aÅŸa??l?k bir yarat?kt?r ki boÅŸ vakti kal?rsa tehlike arz eder; onu düÅŸünemeyecek kadar meÅŸgul tutmak daha güvenlidir.
~ George Orwell
Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought.
~ George Orwell
He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
~ George Orwell
SavaÅŸta yani tehlikede olmak duygusu, yaÅŸaman?n tek çözüm yolu olarak bütün gücün s?n?rl? bir zümrenin eline verilmesini hakl? gösterir.
~ George Orwell
Suddenly they were both leaping round him, shouting "Traitor!" and "Thought-criminal!", the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
~ George Orwell
In a time of danger, the person sounding the paranoid continual alarm will eventually be right. A voice arguing for our complete rightness and the complete wrongness of our enemies, a voice constantly broadening the definition of enemy, relieves us of the burden of living with ambiguity.
~ George Saunders
This storm is dangerous
~ George W. Bush
The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.
~ George W. Bush
heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
~ George Washington
I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure, replied Miss Thane. But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.
~ Georgette Heyer
You need have no fear. But were I to meet you, sir, you would lie dead at my feet within the space of five minutes. Possibly less. I do not know. He appeared to give the matter his consideration.
~ Georgette Heyer
We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm.
~ Geroge Orwell
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
~ Gershom Scholem
And George knew just what it was, too. It was an avalanche. He jumped just like his horse had done—for it had known something was wrong, the way animals do. Anyway, George jumped and tried to run, but it was too late.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
~ Gertrude Stein
We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
~ Valerie Jarrett
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
~ Edward Hoagland
I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.
~ Joanne Liu
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.
~ Michel Foucault
You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.
~ Robin Williams
What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
~ Nikki Sixx
I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.
~ Tim Pratt
We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.
~ Austin Aries