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Quotes About Threats

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
~ Bobby Vinton
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
~ Mikko Hypponen
By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.
~ Nick Flynn
I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.
~ Barack Obama
The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.
~ Mario Puzo
The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence.
~ Mario Puzo
Nunca se aborreça — Don Corleone o havia instruído. — Nunca faça uma ameaça. Argumente com as pessoas.
~ Mario Puzo
In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to implement the law which permitted him to buy uncultivated land, the gabbellotto frightened him off with threats of bodily harm or death. It was that simple.
~ Mario Puzo
Never make a threat. Reason with people." The word "reason" sounded so much better in Italian, ragione, to rejoin. The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.
~ Mario Puzo
Pese a ello, la mentalidad tribal y la tentación colectivista de desaparecer al individuo dentro de una colectividad supuestamente homogénea e idéntica están lejos de haber sido superadas. Ellas retornan, de manera cíclica, como amenazas constantes a nuestra modernización y a que América Latina asuma, con todas sus consecuencias, la cultura de la libertad.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.
~ Anthony Powell
The reaction to these claims of impulse and these threats of danger, a reaction in which the real activity of the psychic apparatus is manifested, may be guided correctly by the pleasure-principle or by the reality-principle which modifies this.
~ Sigmund Freud
Man seems not to have been endowed, or to have been endowed to only a very small degree, with an instinctive recognition of the dangers that threaten him from without.
~ Sigmund Freud
We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.
~ Herb Kohl
In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.
~ John Boehner
the most crucial source of dissatisfaction, which provoked the most explicit threats to hold up money, was religion.
~ John Miller
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
~ John Pistole
The most significant challenge to stability is the perverse impulse toward freedom. You can't control this desire for freedom entirely with threats and punishments; it's more effective if you teach people to doubt the reality of their own perceptions. When the system is working correctly, they censor themselves.
~ John Twelve Hawks
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
~ Ellen Tauscher
The mob asks to be overwhelmed by invective, by threats and revelations, by shattering pronouncements: the mob loves a shouter.
~ Emil M. Cioran
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
~ Barack Obama
I've received some very creepy letters, from some very creepy men.
~ Miquita Oliver
What a folly is it now, he instantly resumed, leaving the general and attacking a particular, to think to make people good by promises and threats--promises of a heaven that would bore the dullest among them to death, and threats of a hell the very idea of which, if only half conceived, would be enough to paralyse every nerve of healthy action in the human system!
~ George MacDonald
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
~ George Orwell