There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
Our biggest risk is ourselves.
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?
