Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une ide¤  e, quand on n'a qu'une ide¤  e. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

-Alain (EŁ  mile-Auguste Chartier)
  Propos sur la religion, no.74.

It is the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you are mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause, and then you can't find anyone who disagrees.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference, Oct.

   The greater the power, themore dangerous isthe abuse.

-Burke, Edmund
  Speech on the Middlesex Election, House of Commons, 7 Feb.

All delays are dangerous in war. 288

-Dryden,John
  Tyrannic Love, act1, sc.1.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

-Dumas, Alexandre, fils
Attributed.

It's a damned long, dark, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.2.

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Heart of the Matter, bk.1, pt.1, ch.2, iii.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

-Hawthorn, Mike
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

To me politics is like one of those annoying and potentially dangerous, but generally just painful, chronic diseases that you just have to put up with all your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes.

-Jones,James
  Interview in the Paris Review, Winter.

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

-Lamb, Lady Caroline
  Of Byron.  Journal entry, Mar, after meeting the poet at a ball. Quoted in Elizabeth  Jenkins Lady Caroline Lamb (1932), ch.6.

   There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant 'to be known', that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

-Sagan, Carl Edward
  Broca's Brain.

Ispeakof that most dangerous duoöPresident Ray-Gun and the plutonium blonde, Margaret Thatcher.

-Scargill, Arthur
  Quoted in Time, 3 Dec.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing, and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

-J(ulian)
1066 and AllThat.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Doctor's Dilemma, preface,'The LatestTheories'.

Facility is a dangerous thing.Where there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticising. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

-Sloan,John French
  Gist of Art.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

-Stein, Gertrude
  'Q.E.D.', bk.1. Collected in Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971).

Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

-Stein, Gertrude
  Everybody's Autobiography, ch.2.

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  Xingu and Other Stories,'Xingu'.

A littlesincerity isa dangerousthing, and agreat deal of it is absolutely fatal.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
Intentions,'The Critic as Artist'.

Nothing isso dangerous as being too modern.One isapt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Lord Markby. An Ideal Husband, act 2.