Threat Quotes

• Change is no threat to culture.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Threat

• You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Man
  • Position
  • Mediocrity

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• To be haunted by my heart is no threat.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • Threat
  • My Heart

• I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Force
  • Iraq
  • Cooperation

• The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

  

  Alan Cranston
  • Time
  • War
  • Military

• Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Program

• The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.

  

  Aristotle
  • Greatest
  • State
  • Distraction

• The threat of nuclear war isn't nearly as important as the threat of the destruction of our resource base which sustains us.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Important
  • War
  • Nuclear War

• A good threat is worth a thousand tests.

  

  Boris Beizer
  • Threat
  • Tests

• He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Brain
  • Win
  • Threat

• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Threat
  • Honestly
  • Pact

• Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

  

  Betty Shabazz
  • Threat
  • Seven
  • Six

• I did so many things that made me a threat.

  

  Rickey Henderson
  • Made
  • Threat

• If the use of military force, or the threat of use of military force, is necessary to bring about a political solution, NATO is prepared to do it.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Threat
  • NATO
  • Military force

• I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Problem
  • Threat
  • Macho Man

• It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Democracy
  • Internet
  • Threat

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Various

• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Up
  • Value
  • Hero

• Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Threat
  • Iran
  • Be Clear

• After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Terrorist
  • Muslim
  • 9/11

• The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially a problem of allocating resources. If strategy is to be successful, it must allocate superior resources against a decisive opportunity.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Successful

• Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Threat
  • Russians
  • Boycott

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