Quotes about Danger

To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice... Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The odd thing is that fear and anxiety are running away from something, but they don't know what to run to. They know danger, but they don't know where to find peace and rest.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.