There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you you can hunt for food with it - you know the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process right? You know: the knife cuts the steak stabs the person saves somebody from danger cuts somebody out of a car.

I've got two old Volvos two old Subarus and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car you've gotta have at least several old cars 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life in its real sense is lost.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster of danger and denial.

And for me the real world involves everything: risk danger beauty energy all we meet with in the real world.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Beauty like ice our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth slippery way: Pleased with the surface we glide swiftly on And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.

Great perils have this beauty that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest a potential of danger to you or your family or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

After a few months in my parents' basement I took an apartment near the state university where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.