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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
- Joseph Heller
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
- Aristotle
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The
- Theodore Roosevelt
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
No pain, no gain. Without danger, the virtue of courage cannot be developed. Without trials and tribulations we can have no patience. God has to permit sin before we can experience forgiveness. Higher-order virtues are dependent on allowing lower-order evils.
- Norman Geisler
The danger never lies in a technique in itself, but solely in the spirit in which the technique is applied and handled.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Danger only threatens when a political system sends those not-decent people, i.e., the negative element of a nation, to the top.
- Viktor E. Frankl
She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not
- Virginia Woolf
'Twould be as much as my life was worth.
- Laurence Sterne
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
- Charles Dickens