Quotes about Danger

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

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.