Threat Quotes

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

  

  Carmen Reinhart
  • Debt
  • Economies
  • Accumulate

• 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

• The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.

  

  T. D. Allman
  • World
  • Peace
  • United

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

  

  William Scranton
  • People
  • Clear
  • Panic

• I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Danger
  • Human Race

• The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Criticism
  • Absence
  • Threat

• 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

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

  

  Jack Straw
  • Destruction
  • Weapons
  • Saddam`s

• 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 greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Washington
  • Threat
  • Bernie Sanders

• 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

• 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

• Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • Sweet
  • Break
  • Adorable

• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Evidence

• 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

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

  

  William Hague
  • Reality
  • Faces
  • Climate

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Dean Alfange
  • Never
  • Master
  • Threat

• 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

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