Paul Virilio Quotes

During the times of peace and prosperity a leader becomes careless and unmindful of the future

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous.

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.

If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

If anybody ever finds out where your district is, they'll beat you.

Truth is often attended with danger

The driver of a carriage or the rider of a bicycle along the streets of a city is bound to anticipate that passengers on foot may be at the crossings and to take reasonable care not to injure them. If he fails to look out for them, or when he sees, does not, so far as is in his power, avoid them, he is chargeable with negligence

Love makes the most careful man wreckless.

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.

Letting your guard down and the world into your home is very risky, I know.

I can go back and fall on my head any time.

You can't just drive with no brakes and think that everything is going to go great, and the minute something goes bad, you fall apart.

In life, I'm a guy who likes to drive a car quite fast, but I wear a seat belt at the same time.