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Quotes About Danger

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
~ Joseph Stalin
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
~ Bob Hawke
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
~ Sun Tzu
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.
~ Jean Vanier
More die in flight than in battle.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Another victory like that and we are done for.
~ Pyrrhus of Epirus
The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
~ William D. Leahy
Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
~ Elie Wiesel
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.
~ John Pilger
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
~ Adolf Hitler
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
~ M.M. Kaye
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
~ Sun Tzu
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)
~ Sebastian Junger, War
And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.
~ Gavin Hood
I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.
~ Bette Davis
When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.
~ Jay Leno
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
~ William Henry Ashley
...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
~ George Orwell
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
~ Wendell Berry
Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
~ Eamon de Valera
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.
~ Sun Tzu