Potential Harm Quotes

Expect poison from the standing water.

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?" He stares at me for a few seconds. "Go," he says, "and God help you.

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

Most of us will agree that the right to say anything anywhere, no matter what the consequences, is carrying the right to free expression a bit too far. We run into controversy, however, when we try to draw the line between protected free expression and the kind of expression that should be prohibited because of the potential harm that it can do.

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.