Threat Quotes

• When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Challenges
  • Unexpected
  • Encounters

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Mean
  • Scared
  • Terrorist

• The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Cold
  • Gold
  • Neglected

• The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

  

  Carmen Reinhart
  • Debt
  • Economies
  • Accumulate

• There is no greater threat to America than Islam.

  

  William G. Boykin
  • America
  • Islam
  • Greater

• Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • America
  • Europe
  • Israel

• The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

  

  William Greider
  • Interest
  • Globalization
  • Protector

• Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

  

  Van Jones
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Threat

• A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Enemy
  • Discipline
  • Fit

• Sea level rise is a significant and growing threat to New Jersey, ... Future Sea Level Rise and the New Jersey Coast.

  

  Matthew Cooper
  • Sea
  • Level
  • New Jersey

• Russia is the biggest threat to the international order, not the Islamic State, not Iran, although I have problems with Iran, and not China. It's Russia.

  

  Wendy Sherman
  • Problem
  • Islamic
  • Threat

• Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

  

  Michael E. Mann
  • Environmental
  • Climate
  • Host

• There is no difference between me and Netanyahu in reading the threat of Iran. There is no daylight between us on this issue at all.

  

  Isaac Herzog
  • Threat
  • Iran
  • Daylight

• An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Liberty
  • Threat
  • Bureaucracy

• A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Freedom
  • Threat
  • Terrorist

• Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Destruction
  • Mass

• She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Sound
  • Blackmail

• With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

  

  Will Self
  • Natural
  • Anxiety
  • Errors

• In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a rogue state with biological and chemical weapons. If we fail to respond, Saddam and all those who follow will believe that they can threaten the security of a vital region with impunity. But if we act now as one, we will send a clear message to would-be tyrants and terrorists that we will do what it takes to protect our security and our freedom in this new era.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Kind

• The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.

  

  Amina Mama
  • Women
  • Threat
  • Militarism

• It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.

  

  Clementine Ford
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Values

• The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • People
  • Different
  • Terrorist

• Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Destruction
  • Weapons
  • Saddam`s

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