Human Danger Quotes

The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.

Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

I've always been much more scared of the living than I am of the dead.

Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.