Quotes About Threats

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

This book sounds an alarm. The world needs—now—a global early-warning system capable of detecting and responding to new emerging infectious disease threats to health. There is no clearer warning than AIDS. Laurie Garrett has spelled it out clearly for us. Now we ignore it at our peril.

So the realm of strategy is one of bargaining and persuasion as well as threats and pressure, psychological as well as physical effects, and words as well as deeds. This is why strategy is the central political art. It is about getting more out of a situation than the starting balance of power would suggest. It is the art of creating power.

FDOA («Fortalezas y Debilidades de una organización a la luz de las Oportunidades y Amenazas en el entorno»; en inglés, SWOT «Strengths and Weaknesses of organization in the light of the Opportunities and Threats in the enviroment»).

Así pues, el territorio de la estrategia es la negociación y la persuasión, al igual que las amenazas y la presión, se recurre tanto a los efectos psicológicos como a los físicos, y a las palabras como a los hechos. Esta es la razón por la que la estrategia es el arte esencial de la política. Y se trata de conseguir de una situación concreta más de lo que el equilibrio inicial de fuerzas podría sugerir. Es el arte de crear poder.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

So it wasn't tourists or encyclopaedia salesmen he was worried about.

Thus, we are wise to at least consider orientation to authority as one of several factors—including low intelligence, low education, lack of political sophistication, and external threats of specific kinds (for example, economic threat)—predisposing people to accept fascist ideology.

You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently?" ~ Morelli

I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances.

As outrageously counter-intuitive as this might seem, the most hardened terrorists and criminals are often extremely willing to brag about the terrible things they've done, the unlikely places that they have been hiding, the important people that they know and deal with, and the plans they have been working on for the future.

As a profession, we face unlimited threats with limited resources. We face a lack of trust in some of the communities we serve. We face a whole lot of second guessing and criticism about the work we're doing and the way we're doing it.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.

Standing with a united India is Canada's gateway to unprecedented human and economic development and an essential alliance for Canada to strengthen in the face of shared threats.

Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.

There were times when gangs would approach me, but my father was way stronger than them. They would come make threats and stuff, and I was like, 'You don't know the opposition I've got upstairs. I'm not scared of you.'

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

I would say national security is work in progress.