Quotes About Risk

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Takeoff isn't scary at all - just the landing. Once you're in the air, you feel that sense of freedom of no limits.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.