Quotes About Internal threat

Sie ist schon da, was?", fragte Homunkoloss. "Wer ist da?" "Die größte aller Gefahren." "Die größte aller Gefahren? Hier? Wo? Wo ist sie?" Ich sah mich panisch um, nach einer fetten Schlange oder einer giftigen Tunnelspinne, aber da war nichts. "Sie steckt in dir", sagte Homunkoloss. "Die Furcht." (S. 436)

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Su oponente era alguien que sabía que, a menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

Lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. El impacto y el dolor de una pesadilla pueden ser mucho mayores que el de un puñetazo. Asimismo, a veces lo que duele no es tanto ese puñetazo como la emoción tras él...

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates.

Without the discovery of Arnold's treason in the fall of 1780, the American people might never have been forced to realize that the real threat to their liberties came not from without but from within.

The biggest threat to Western civilization is posed not by other civilizations, but by our own pusillanimity — and by the historical ignorance that feeds it.

Without the discovery of Arnold's treason in the fall of 1780, the american people might never have been forced to realize that the real threat to their liberties came not from without but from within.