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Quotes About Threat

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
~ Margaret Mead
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.
~ Ted Cruz
The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.
~ Tim Cook
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.
~ Marc Cooper
I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.
~ Fred Hoyle
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~ James Madison
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
~ Pyrrhus
The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.
~ Brian A. McBride, Dominion
If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head
~ Khaled Hosseini
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
~ Joseph Heller
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.
~ Paul Tillich
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
~ Sydney J. Harris
God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
My alarm tells me you're in my house. My gun tells me not for long.
~ Tags: insomnia
Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all costs. Now it's contentment,
~ Tana French
That schema builds up the perception of danger by exaggerating any hint of a threat, so that small squalls become major hurricanes in the mind. The island woman had the opposite understanding: real danger may come, so you do everything you can to prepare, but once you've done what you can, just relax.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.
~ Tara Brach
Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?
~ Tate Hallaway
Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.
~ Tate Hallaway
Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
~ Ted Bell
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
~ Larry Niven
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
~ Rusty Schweickart