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Quotes About Threats

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
~ Stafford Cripps
Every opponent in the Premier League is a warning.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.
~ Hafthor Bjornsson
Cyber Security is NOT the Military Force, though it may encompass it.
~ Rafay Baloch
If the price of peace on India's streets was capitulation to the Empire and its threats, Gandhi was not willing to pay that price.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
The Chandler Act (aka the Emerging Technological Threats Act of 2032) is the opening salvo in a new War on Science. To understand the future course of this war, one need only look at the history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Like those two manufactured "wars", this one will be never-ending, freedom-destroying, counterproductive, and ultimately understood to have caused far more damage than the supposed threat it was aimed at ever could have.
~ Ramez Naam
Just as there are several components of the immune system, each of which protects us against particular kinds of invasions, there are subtypes of emotion that protect us against a variety of particular kinds of threats.
~ Randolph M. Nesse
The manner in which information is collected, stored, exchanged, and used has changed forever – and with it, the character of the threats to individual privacy. But while the electronic revolution touches almost every part of our lives, it is not, of course, technology itself that is the villain, but the uses to which it is put.
~ Raymond Wacks
So much of feminism has been women speaking up about hitherto unacknowledged experiences, and so much of antifeminism has been men telling them these things didn't happen. You were not just raped, your rapist may say, and then if you persist there may be death threats, because killing people is the easy way to be the only voice in the room.
~ Rebecca Solnit
YesAllWomen because I can't tweet about feminism without getting threats and perverted replies. Speaking out shouldn't scare me. • #YesAllWomen because I've seen more men angry at the hashtag rather than angry at the things happening to women. • #YesAllWomen because if you're too nice to them you're "leading them on" & if you're too rude you risk violence. Either way you're a bitch.
~ Rebecca Solnit
A volunteer police force tries to keep women in their place or put them back in it. The online world is full of mostly anonymous rape and death threats for women who stick out—who, for instance, participate in online gaming or speak up on controversial issues, or even for the woman who recently campaigned to put women's images on British banknotes
~ Rebecca Solnit
El-ahrairah, tu pueblo no puede gobernar el mundo porque yo no lo he dispuesto así. Todo el mundo será tu enemigo, Príncipe con Mil Enemigos, y te matarán si te alcanzan. Pero antes tendrán que atraparte, a ti, que cavas y escuchas y corres, príncipe con la alarma presta. Sé astuto e ingenioso y tu pueblo nunca será destruido.
~ Richard Adams
Politicians who invent external threats from foreign powers, in order to scare up economic or voter support for themselves, might find that a potentially colliding meteor answers their ignoble purpose just as well as an Evil Empire, an Axis of Evil, or the more nebulous abstraction 'Terror', with the added benefit of encouraging international co-operation rather than divisiveness
~ Richard Dawkins
And so, by the end, you have tried soft love and tough love, feelings and reason, truth and lies, promises and threats, hope and stoicism.
~ Julian Barnes
My software will take care of every security threat out there and some you may not even know about yet. No longer will you have to update your firewalls or your antivirus and antispyware software. Identities and passwords will be protected from hackers like never before.
~ Julie Garwood
In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
But both murders affect Lincoln deeply. In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and feuds. It became increasingly difficult to judge where the threat was coming from.
~ Karen Traviss
Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.
~ Karen Traviss
I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.
~ Lil B
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous.
~ Maria V. Snyder
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
~ Max Lucado
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
~ Sigmund Freud