Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
The great danger for family life in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure comfort and independence lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men but that men will begin to think like computers.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.