Quotes About Threat

when the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.

All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide.

In other words, the world will face the threat of financial crises as long as risk-taking and maturity transformation remain central to finance, and as long as humans remain human. Unfortunately, disaster will always be possible.

Given the seriousness of the threat posed to global financial stability by a Lehman bankruptcy,

because man is a threat to man, human beings seek safety and satisfaction in authority;

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.

One does not conjure away dangers by shielding them from the public eye. Far from it: they grow from the very night which surrounds them. Objects look larger in the darkness. In the shadow, everything appears gigantic and hostile.

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Someone once told him the scariest part of any story was when a character crept forward to investigate a strange sound. Whatever nightmare waited around the corner did not matter, its revelation almost always a disappointment. It was the imagined threat that mattered most.

Donald Trump is a greater threat to the United States than terrorism.

You say that I'm paranoid But I'm pretty sure the world is out to get me

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.

This man might kill me.

But Palmerston feared that a new, unified Germany at the heart of Europe would alter the balance of power and threaten English interests as a free Hungary or a republican Spain could not.

And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.