Danger

Famous quotes containing the word danger:

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Our books of science, as they improve in accuracy, are in danger of losing the freshness and vigor and readiness to appreciate the real laws of Nature, which is a marked merit in the ofttimes false theories of the ancients.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)