Famous quotes containing the word dangerous:
“Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions,—such call I good books.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)