Quotes About Dangerous

En The Open Society and its Enemies, de donde proceden estas citas, Popper es meridianamente claro: «economic power may be nearly as dangerous as physical violence» («el poder económico puede ser casi tan peligroso como la violencia física»)[44].

Arévalo quisiera hacer de Guatemala una democracia, como los Estados Unidos, país que admira y tiene como modelo. Los soñadores suelen ser peligrosos, y en este sentido el doctor Arévalo lo es. Su proyecto no tiene la menor posibilidad de realizarse. ¿Cómo se podría convertir en una democracia moderna un país de tres millones de habitantes, el setenta por ciento de los cuales son indios analfabetos que apenas han salido del paganismo, o todavía

Jesus was seen as dangerous because he rejected not only warfare and killing but any kind of force. Those in authority saw this as a challenge. How could there be authority without force?

A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent — the victim's head or your pan — then throw that pan right in the trash.

There is an undercurrent of almost hysterical glee in his descriptions of Mary as a menacing and infectious brute – as if by calling her dangerous and unstable he was mitigating his own failure and fears.

So too then is it with the Virtues: for by acting in the various relations in which we are thrown with our fellow men, we come to be, some just, some unjust: and by acting in dangerous positions and being habituated to feel fear or confidence, we come to be, some brave, others cowards.

He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.

I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Where is your warrant?" Holmes half drew a revolver from his pocket. "This will have to serve till a better one comes." "Why, you're a common burglar." "So you might describe me," said Holmes cheerfully. "My companion is also a dangerous ruffian. And together we are going through your house.

this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all the fiends crouching closely in his very shadow, like a half-cowed beast which slinks beside its keeper, ready at any unguarded moment to spring at his throat.

As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.

Esa fue la gran fuerza de Eichmann, que tratara el problema judío sin emoción alguna; por eso fue el hombre más peligroso de todos, por estar exento de todo sentimiento humano. En una ocasión dijo que él no era un antisemita. Pero sí era antihumano

the lifting against the natural force of gravity of two-hundred-odd tons of airplane and three-hundred-odd human beings to an entirely unsustainable altitude of seven or so miles, and then propelling all without interruption for many long hours, suspended by nothing more than a lately realized principle of physics, high above a cold and highly dangerous expanse of sea.

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

A society like the Church, which claims to be divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains than on account of the evil which sullies it.

Perfection is impersonal. Our personality is the part of us which belongs to error and sin. The whole effort of the mystic has always been to become such that there is no part left in his soul to say 'I'. But the part of the soul which says 'We' is infinitely more dangerous still.

Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance as it has done in many others.

Monkeys are dangerous animals. Don't be fooled by the cute exterior, Eve said like she was imparting some sage wisdom. Look, I explained, I'm sure those monkeys were just mad about something like being trapped in a cage or being forced to wear velvet vests and dance to accordion music.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

Yesterday I bought myself a new, very sharp kitchen knife.And I managed to cut my finger within 5 minutes of getting home!Those plastic packages are bloody dangerous!!!

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.

I had been conditioned to believe that there is nothing more dangerous than the arrogance of ignorance; now I would learn that it does not compare with arrogance of knowledge, knowledge that often is confused with wisdom.