Quotes About Threat

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we've got guns all over the place. It's basically a cold war for individuals: you've got a nuclear bomb, and I've got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

A "crisis" is not an objective state of affairs but a matter of interpretation. Populist will often eagerly frame a situation as a crisis, calling it an existential threat, because such a crisis then serves to legitimate populist governance.

the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu concluded that Europeans and Christianity posed a threat to the stability of the shogunate and Japan. (In retrospect, when one considers how European military intervention followed the arrival of apparently innocent traders and missionaries in China, India, and many other countries, the threat foreseen by Ieyasu was real.)

My best-case scenario for the future is that China's government will recognize that its environmental problems pose an even graver threat that did its problem of population growth. It may then conclude that China's interests require environmental policies as bold, and as effectively carried out, as its family planning policies.

To avoid a repeat of this near disaster, the Council of Genres took the only course of action open to them to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it.

the perception of a threat was eight times as good as a real one

no one was taking any chances since a deranged individual had broken into Chawton, threatening to destroy all Jane Austen's letters unless his frankly dull and uneven Austen biography was published.

Drowning isn't the only way water can kill you.

We are threatened not just by memory loss, but by the routing of the synapses by the filterable viruses of memory. The strange disappearance of names, faces and places seems like a programmed erasure, like the imperceptible advance of a virus which, after infecting the artificial memories of computers, is now attacking natural memories. Might there not be a conspiracy of software?

Freedom is not as free as is generally thought: it produces antibodies which rebel against it. Truth, too, is threatened from within, like a state battling with its own police force. If values enjoyed total immunity, they would be as lethal as a scientific truth.

Our greatest adversaries now threaten us only with their disappearance.

?nsan?n ya?ant?s?n? paralize eden ?eyin ad? atom bombas? atma tehdidi de?ildir. Ya?am?m?z? kanser eden ?eyin ad? cayd?rmad?r.

He was particularly dissatisfied with Aristotle's insistence that tragedy should invariably depict the downfall of a flawed or 'middling' hero, insisting instead that what made a tragedy was the severity of the threat rather than the play's actual outcome.

Vi a Antoinette tendida en cama, absolutamente inmóvil. Como una muñeca. Incluso cuando me amenazó con la botella, había en ella cierta calidad de marioneta.

These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is?

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.