The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.
Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
No one will question that this power [the war power] is the most dangerous one to free government in the whole catalogue of powers.
A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.
