Greater Risk

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or risk:

“There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.”
—Ivan Illich (b. 1926)

“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either a saint or a mediocrity.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)