Peril Quotes

Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable. (Jacques Chirac)
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. View quote
Henry Kissinger
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. View quote
Pierre Corneille
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. View quote
Winston Churchill
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. (Edward Dahlberg)
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place. View quote
John Dewey
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander-in-chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril. View quote
Joe Lieberman
His food Was glory, which was poison to his mind And peril to his body. View quote
Henry Taylor
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. View quote
Walter Raleigh
My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail. View quote
George W. Bush
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. View quote
Alice Walker
The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all - or there is no danger. View quote
David Gemmell
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. View quote
James A. Michener
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design. View quote
Thucydides
The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril. View quote
Terry Pratchett
In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. View quote
Herman Melville