Ideas Are Dangerous Quotes

#1. It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

Glenn Greenwald

#2. Ideas are dangerous commodities.

E. C. R. Lorac

#3. Yet one must also recognize that morality is based on ideas and that all ideas are dangerous - dangerous because ideas can only lead to action and where the action leads no man can say.

James Baldwin

#4. If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.

Philippa Gregory

#5. All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Ideas are more dangerous than missiles.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#7. As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Stephen Vizinczey

#8. Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Steven Spielberg

#9. In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

Robert Reich

#11. Illusions are dangerous . . . Ideas are infallible, people are not. Don't confuse the two.

Kate Moretti

#12. The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

Tom Hodgkinson

#13. Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas.

Richard Stallman

#14. With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth ... But we as gardeners, must beware ... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin ... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Moore

#15. Feelings 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 Eno

#16. It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.

Michael Scheuer

#18. Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#19. It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

John Maynard Keynes

#20. Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Pete Hautman

#21. Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of 'them' & widen the circle of 'us.

Libba Bray

#22. [Donald Trump] suggestions that the United States should leave the Pacific and let Japan, South Korea, or whoever else wants to develop nuclear weapons. These are incredibly dangerous ideas that need to be confronted.

Hillary Clinton

#23. The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

Jacob M. Appel

#24. Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

P. J. O'Rourke

#25. It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

Tom Sturridge

#26. The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

Rick Cook

#27. Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

William O. Douglas

#28. The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

C.S. Lewis

#29. I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together.
It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.

Michelle Mone

#30. Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

Andre Gide

#31. Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.

John Steinbeck

#32. Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.

Philippa Gregory

#33. I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.

Felix Rohatyn