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You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas... -- Jim Holt
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated. -- Lawrence Summers
Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas. -- Tim Kaine
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. -- C. S. Lewis
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree. -- Stephen Vizinczey
[Donald Trump] suggestions that the United States should leave the Pacific and let Japan, South Korea, or whoever else wants to develop nuclear weapons. These are incredibly dangerous ideas that need to be confronted. -- Hillary Clinton
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all. -- Jacob M. Appel
The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea. -- Michael Moore
I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers. -- Clive Owen
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. -- John Maynard Keynes
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. -- Richard Stallman
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. -- Phyllis Bottome
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -- Oscar Wilde
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. -- Elbert Hubbard
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. -- Russ Feingold
You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. -- Robin Williams
I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into. -- Leon Panetta
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. -- George Allen
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope. -- Gever Tulley
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. -- Neel Mukherjee
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story. -- John Burnside
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. -- Brian Eno
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women. -- Julie Burchill
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. -- Jeanne Moreau
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. -- Jonas Gahr Store
As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us. -- Richard Dooling
ideas are dangerous commodities. -- E. C. R. Lorac
All great ideas are dangerous. -- Oscar Wilde
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. -- Pete Hautman
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. -- Sarah J. Maas
I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas. -- Tariq Ramadan
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. -- Anthony Burgess
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them. -- Andre Gide
In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems. -- Robert Reich
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. -- Michael Crichton
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous. -- Timothy Findley
We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms. -- Janet Kauffman
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged. -- William O. Douglas
Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy. -- Charles James Fox
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection. -- Robert Grudin

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