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Quotes about Recklessness

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
- Toni Morrison
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
- Nelson Mandela
He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
- Proverbs 7:22
Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,
- Proverbs 26:18
In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.
- Steven Pressfield
Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
- Peter Kreeft
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
- Jack Kerouac
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- Aristotle
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
- DH Lawrence
Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.
- Tucker Max
He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He
- Victor Hugo
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
- Walt Whitman