Quotes About Threat

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

The knife closest to you causes more harm than the one far from you.

Aggression and depression sound like two different, even polarized phenomena, but they're not. Depression is aggression turned inward, directed against the self, or the imagined, threatening self. A seriously depressed person may look anesthetized to an observer, but the depressed person is never anesthetized to herself. She may wish to be, and she may seek to be with chemical aid, but she cannot truly placate her sneering, jabbering, nested aggressor.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Without the discovery of Arnold's treason in the fall of 1780, the american people might never have been forced to realize that the real threat to their liberties came not from without but from within.

They had been told that the plant produced something called heavy water, and that with this mysterious substance the Nazis might be able "to blow up a good part of London.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

The Revolt against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man,

The cops, however, took his satire on the chin and went on to guard him from assassins.

I have yet to meet a servant of Whitehall that did not have a serpent's smile. Men with power have much to lose, and will do much to hold on to it should be threatened.

When the danger came from within, the risk was always highest.

She clung to the saddle horn. If she fell now, he would kill her. She must hold on.

He rested his palm on the pommel of his sword in what Peretur recognized not as a threat but the habit of a possessive man reassuing himself of his treasure. Mine. This is mine and you may not have it.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

The sinister uniformity that threatens us will not be imposed by a doctrine, but by a uniform economic and social conditioning.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von der ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit der Romantik Kierkegaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesem Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bossuets mit dem dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit Romantik Kierkgaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesen Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bosseut mit den dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

I'll kill him. You're mine, Nicole—not some stupid mortal that can't even put out a fire. Next time I'll let him burn. And if you try anything stupid like you did tonight, I'll let you burn too.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

the belief that the threat of rape is everywhere, that it can happen at any time, that it is the worst fate that can befall women, is enough to make us police ourselves and restrict our own mobility. But on the other hand, feminists also want to demystify rape, to begin to see it not as a unique and life-destroying form of violation from which one can never recover, but as (merely) another kind of violence against person.

Nothing meaning the absence of tangible threats—no gun to her head, no knife to her throat—and yet what is poverty if not a threat? What is being called that word or followed down the street by packs of boys if not a threat?