Ideas Dangerous Quotes

#1. I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

Clive Owen

#2. 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

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

Kate Moretti

#4. Nothing is more dangerous to liberty than the power of entailed art and ideas. The very soul of a republic is the common citizen's inalienable access to knowledge.

Lewis Hyde

#5. Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

Mick Jagger

#6. Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.

Andrea Dworkin

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

Robert Reich

#8. Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#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. 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

#11. (I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. ("The Adoration of The Magi")

W.B.Yeats

#12. I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.

Rachael Taylor

#13. Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.

Guy De Maupassant

#14. Ideas are more dangerous than missiles.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

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

Pete Hautman

#16. 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

#17. Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

Andre Maurois

#18. [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

#19. Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Timothy Findley

#20. 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

#21. Most of Mycroft's ideas were far too dangerous to even think about, much less let loose on a world unprepared for hyper-radical thought.

Jasper Fforde

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Stephen Vizinczey

#25. The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Lawrence Summers

#26. The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation ...

Thomas Sowell

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

John Maynard Keynes

#28. 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

#29. I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

Bill Maher

#30. 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

#31. The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

Naftali Bennett

#32. 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

#33. It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Michael Haneke

#34. Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

Jonas Gahr Store

#35. 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

#36. We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

Janet Kauffman

#37. I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.

Tariq Ramadan

#38. As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Julie Burchill

#39. Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

Basmah Bint Saud

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

Richard Stallman

#41. There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.

Greg Curtis

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

Philippa Gregory

#43. In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Michael Crichton

#44. 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

#45. I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

William Butler Yeats

#46. If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

Dale Carnegie

#47. There was no point saying that everyone has a different sexual profile, as individual as their fingerprints; no one wanted to believe that. It was very dangerous being uninhibited in bed; there was always the fear that the other person might still be a slave to their preconceived ideas.

Paulo Coelho

#48. Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Pema Chodron

#49. Ideas are dangerous commodities.

E. C. R. Lorac

#50. Of course if no one had ever been exposed to dangerous ideas from scandalous women, Christianity itself would not have had its unique beginning nor its glorious history, but whatever.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#51. The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it's dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.

Tullian Tchividjian

#52. 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

#53. games so widespread among the young distract them from dangerous activities like reading and thinking: games do away with those intolerable viruses called ideas. This

Guillaume Faye

#54. 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

#55. The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Anthony Burgess

#56. Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Sarah J. Maas

#57. I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man." "We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said. "Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.

Andy Weir

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

Andre Gide

#59. Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in the package?", I'm always tempted to answer: "Yes -- ideas.

Dave Zobel

#60. To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#61. All great ideas are dangerous.

Oscar Wilde

#62. Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Robert Grudin

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

John Steinbeck

#64. 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

#65. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

Carole Lombard

#66. 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

#67. For me, the key question is what's behind the dangerous idea. If it's simply to stir things up and appear radical, I'm not interested. But if it's done with a quest to learn, evolve, and improve the quality of life for people everywhere, I'm on board.

David Livermore

#68. Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Charles James Fox

#69. The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

Donald Miller

#70. 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

#71. I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

Neill Blomkamp

#72. The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

Ashley Montagu

#73. Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

Scott Tracey

#74. Immigration is everyone's business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.

Geoffrey Blainey

#75. I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

Leon Panetta

#76. Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

Adam M. Grant

#77. The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011]

Francis Crick

#78. Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.

Ariel Sharon

#79. This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#80. Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

Joshua Fernandez

#81. 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

#82. You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas ...

Jim Holt

#83. If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadter

#84. I am passionate about everything in my life
first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.
bell hooks

Bell Hooks

#85. 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

#86. The development of Nikola Tesla's ideas by corporate governments has created a sick and dangerous world.

Steven Magee

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

C.S. Lewis