Quotes About Risk

No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails. — Gowachin Law

Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest!

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

She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.

Desperate people are the most dangerous

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

todos los peligros son valiosos si uno está preparado para afrontarlos.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment

House Corrino would not risk such a holocaust. They were undoubtedly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening "other intelligence" ever be encountered.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk," the Duke said, "but when it comes to risking your own family, the element of calculation gets submerged in…other things.

Love needs no guarantees.

The young generally are incapable of making hard decisions unless those decisions are associated with immediate violence and the consequent sharp flow of adrenalin

Kynes passed an unreadable glance across Bewt, said: 'It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk