#danger

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#endangers #evil #good #perceive #value

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#because #big #big city #city #crazy

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#discreetly #even #how #knows #possessor

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#advised #considered #dangerous #exercise #i

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

#get #giving #idea #image #important

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#end #life #live #through #want

It's dangerous to assert oneself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#dangerous #oneself

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#because #bites #dangerous #find #much

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad thing #dangerous #get #good #good people