Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine but has also hurt it in many ways making it more impersonal expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
In fact the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
There will always be vain obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'