Quotes About Threat

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad. Ésta es otra razón por la cual nos mostramos tan reacios a aplicar nuevos inventos. Todo descubrimiento de las ciencias puras es potencialmente subversivo; incluso la ciencia debe ser tratada a veces como un enemigo.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad.

there's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air—we all feel it—and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.

There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack.

Yes; and remember that two-legged crocodiles are more dangerous that the others.

Big Lou sighed. "The Devil's just a tattie-bogle. And there's no such place as Hell, Bob." Bob hesitated. "No, I don't think there is. But why did they tell us all that?" "It was a useful threat, Bob. Fear works. It secured compliance.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.

under constant fear of enemy attack. 16

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3 000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

As long as she loved my boy, I loved her. If she broke his heart, I'd kill her with my bare hands. This seemed reasonable to me. But

If I could kill Kearn, it would be quite a setback to the empire. I'd be

An unknown threat lurking in the shadows can wear a man down faster than a known one.

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.