Howard Rheingold Quotes

People have perceived dangers and real dangers, but to politicians, it's all the same.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

He that's secure is not safe.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

Most people like to live in illusions.

No one's going to shoot at me.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.