Threat Quotes

• 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
  • Anxiety
  • Natural
  • Errors

• 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

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

  

  Carmen Reinhart
  • Debt
  • Economies
  • Accumulate

• 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

• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Long
  • Fun

• 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

• I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.

  

  Dean Alfange
  • Never
  • Master
  • Threat

• And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.

  

  William Scranton
  • People
  • Clear
  • Panic

• New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Term

• The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Support
  • Party
  • Doubt

• 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 small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Blame
  • Excuse
  • Predator

• 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

• 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

• We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

  

  William Hague
  • Reality
  • Faces
  • Climate

• 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

• When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.

  

  Arnold Leese
  • America
  • Jews
  • Threat

• The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • Reality
  • Threat

• If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • God
  • Threat
  • Syria

• Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before.

  

  Ray Nagin
  • Storm
  • News
  • Threat

• Dealing with the threat that Secretaries Albright and Cohen have described, the threat from Saddam Hussein, demands constant resolve by the United States and by the international community; and at times, action. As long as he remains in power, we must be prepared to respond firmly to reckless actions that threaten the region and our interests. We've done that successfully over this decade.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Long
  • Done
  • Community

• 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

• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Peace
  • United States
  • Iraq

• United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

  

  Roy Keane
  • Fighting
  • Soccer
  • Ends

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