Pericula Quotes

#1. The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
[Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

Sallust

#2. The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.

John Kay

#4. My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

Steny Hoyer

#5. But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Leo Tolstoy

#6. The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Rowan Williams

#7. Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

Ovid

#8. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig