Threat Quotes

• I'm sure there is no threat to anyone's identity. But we are starting down that road.

  

  Arthur Caplan
  • Road
  • Identity
  • Threat

• People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • People
  • Threat
  • Regimes

• 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

• The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Moments
  • Citizens
  • Decent

• The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb...

  

  Brother Ali
  • Threat
  • Harm
  • Bomb

• I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Force
  • Danger
  • Conviction

• An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Liberty
  • Threat
  • Bureaucracy

• I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Feels
  • Cities
  • Threat

• Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Country
  • Sometimes
  • Security

• Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Threat
  • Liberals
  • Reproductive Rights

• Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Car
  • Safety
  • Realizing

• Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

  

  Andrzej Stasiuk
  • Freedom
  • Threat
  • Commodity

• The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

  

  Saul Alinsky
  • Thing
  • Threat
  • Terrifying

• Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • People
  • Chance
  • Hire

• Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Crime
  • Terrorists

• Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Threat

• Freedom... refers to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Freedom
  • Decision
  • Liberty

• Global warming is not a threat. It's not a real threat. It's not a credible threat. It's not an imminent threat. ISIS is.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Threat
  • Global Warming

• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Fame
  • Protect

• Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

  

  Winnie Byanyima
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Climate

• Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.

  

  Seth Moulton
  • Today
  • Sleep
  • Eye

• There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • Threat
  • Speculation

• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Real
  • Destruction
  • Capability

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