Unacceptable Risk Quotes

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

No cause is worth the loss of a child's life.

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.