Too Much Freedom Is Dangerous Quotes

#1. Too much freedom is dangerous to those who cannot cope with the responsibilities that accompany independence.

Anonymous

#2. But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

Peter Davison

#3. The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Ellen Key

#4. It towers above us, dark an jagged an dangerous. Behind it, more mountains stretch as far's the eye can see.
Is this th'only way to Freedom Fields? I says.
No, says Jack. I brought you this way because I thought you'd enjoy the scenery.

Moira Young

#5. 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

#6. More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Daniel Hannan

#8. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

#9. She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. One

Octavia E. Butler

#10. Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Harry S. Truman

#11. I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

Jack Parsons

#12. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire

#13. Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Adlai Stevenson I

#14. It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#15. And then there is the most dangerous risk of all
the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

#16. I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Dave Sim

#17. To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

#19. Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free ... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators ... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

Scarlett Thomas

#20. Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

Vaclav Klaus

#21. Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Hildegard Hamm-Brucher

#22. It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

Maria V. Snyder

#23. He was dangerous - she felt it down in her very soul. The price of this young man's freedom would be forged from pain, death, and fire. "Yes," she said. The single word sealed her fate. Standing there on the steep Limerian cliffs, she was ready to watch the world burn.

Morgan Rhodes

#24. The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Natan Sharansky

#25. Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Ludwig Borne

#26. Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Jose Rizal

#27. Therefore, beware of everything that takes away your freedom. Know that it is dangerous, and avoid it by all the means in your power.

Swami Vivekananda

#28. I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

T.J. Dixon

#29. Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Lajos Kossuth

#30. But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

Ray Bradbury

#31. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

Rumi

#32. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.

Jake Ducey