36 Quotes About Hazards

  • Author Albert Gallatin
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    Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

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  • Author Malcolm Gladwell
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    Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money to make decisions based on an assessment of “their needs. The insured are wasteful. The uninsured are prudent. So what's the solution? Make the insured a little more like the uninsured.

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  • Author Horace
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    The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

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  • Author Thomas Hobbes
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    And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of Nature require,) by the Lawes of the Common-wealth. For as it is Unchariablenesse in any man, to neglect the impotent; so it is in the Soveraign of a Common-wealth, to expose them to the hazard of such uncertain Charity.

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  • Author Hans Jonas
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    Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

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