moral hazards Quotes

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.