Danger

Famous quotes containing the word danger:

“Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize ... the immense riches accumulated by the human race.... By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–1990)

“The danger in happiness.—”Now everything turns out for the best for me, now I love every destiny:—who feels like being my destiny?””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)