A Quote by Ralph Ellison

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Ralph Ellison

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Ralph Ellison
American - Author
March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Ralph Ellison

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

Carl Jung

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

Neale Donald Walsch

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

Patricia C. Wrede

Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

Peter Watts

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money.

Wes Craven

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Bart D. Ehrman

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Bob Herbert

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

Alfie Kohn

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

Primo Levi

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."