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Quotes About Threat

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to..."
~ Unknown
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
You lying lunatic bastard. They're going to kill you." "I love you too," he murmured. "Go find Seph.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I could turn you over to the bluejackets, you know. It's in your best interest to come to terms." Han shrugged and ran his hand over the interior wall. "This place could burn down, you know. Maybe even with you inside. That'd be a shame.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Hegel argued that death is used as a threat to keep citizens in line. The minute you stop feating death you are no longer controlled by governments and councils. In a sense you are no longer accountable to life.
~ Claudia Rankine
We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.
~ Unknown
The reasons why so many people in the West downplay or deny the threat posed by the CCP is a theme of this book. One reason is of course financial interest. As Upton Sinclair put it, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
~ Clive Hamilton
A film has to star Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris before it begins to pose a bigger threat to the language than yellow journalism.)
~ Clive James
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
~ Cofer Black
But not one sensible argument as to why unarmed women and children and old people posed a threat to the nation.
~ Unknown
For the Enemy is permanent. He is not in the emergency situation but in the normal state of affairs. He threatens in peace as much as in war (and perhaps more than in war); he is thus being built into the system as a cohesive power.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.
~ Unknown
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.
~ Unknown
I could have told him what I wanted, and threatened him. But I encouraged him; I did it so that he would be complicit.
~ Hilary Mantel
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
~ Hillary Clinton
Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.
~ Holly Black
Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear." "Ominous," I say. "It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.
~ Holly Black
You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see.
~ Holly Black
I swear to fucking God, I will spray you again
~ Holly Black
I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
~ Holly Black
You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter.
~ Holly Black