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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

— Steven Pinker

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

— John Piper

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

— Vernon Howard

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

— Peter MacKay

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

— Edward Abbey

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

— John Bruton

✗Opposing Perspectives

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

— James A. Baldwin

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

— Charles de Montesquieu

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

— Philip Kaufman

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

— H. L. Mencken