You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMen seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas CarlyleAvoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen KellerPolitically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliI can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham LincolnMuch that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand RussellThe reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore RooseveltThe danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
Ayrton SennaThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeHis lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody AllenAnything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.
Brian EnoHow well he’s read, to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareBiographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark TwainThe level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam ChomskyTime, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VoltaireI think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
George H. W. BushPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaUltimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
Jim MattisA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettThere’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
William ShakespeareIt pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac AsimovReputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William ShakespeareThe political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl von ClausewitzThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert EinsteinEver since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas AdamsI’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.
George CarlinA witty saying proves nothing.
VoltaireViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovIn the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
John F. KennedyIt’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
BonoSuccess is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?
Billy GrahamIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard ShawPure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert EinsteinThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
James MadisonPrinces and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo MachiavelliSee first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas AdamsWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
HeraclitusIn doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius CiceroPolitics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry AdamsTwo days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
Noam ChomskyBiography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar WildeThat the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.
Isaac NewtonSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William ShakespeareWhen I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.
Robert GreeneThe intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettThe Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin PowellThe wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
AristotleThe United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. BushToday, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
Richard P. FeynmanAs soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStudy men, not historians.
Harry S. TrumanThe man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl JungThe lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William ShakespeareI’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David BowieFeelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian EnoOld men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard ShawPolitics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams