Quotes About Threat

As soon as there is life there is danger.

One fire would destroy all of us, no matter who started it, for what reason.

The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, we'll go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Tal como nos enseña la naturaleza, cuando una persona se comporta sumisamente, realmente está intentando apaciguar a alguien que se percibe como amenazante (depredador) o reconociendo su superioridad.

Religion survives by telling us we need to fall in line or some horrible fate will befall us.

One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

Pornography frightens people. Women in the industry threaten women who are not.

If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.

A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one's guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required. Cognitive ease is both a cause and a consequence of a pleasant feeling.

SPEAKING OF SYSTEM 1 AND SYSTEM 2 "He had an impression, but some of his impressions are illusions." "This was a pure System 1 response. She reacted to the threat before she recognized it." "This is your System 1 talking. Slow down and let your System 2 take control.

Islamic extremism is just the latest virus to thrive in Europe's nurturing environment. - Gabriel Allon

The barbarians are at the gates." "The barbarians broke down the gates a long time ago... They're living among us now and devouring our children.

Complacency, he had warned her, was an illegal's greatest enemy

lethal roadside bombs

Throughout the eighties, kidnapping was deployed as an empty threat by overworked, exhausted parents who wanted to keep us close enough to elude Child Protective Services but far enough away to not ever have to see, hear, or smell anything we were playing with.

What if the real threat posed to society and democracy is not actually posed by the other side? What if the real danger is posed by political and media elites who try to get us to think that we'd be better off without the other side and who use these divisions for their own personal, financial, political benefit?

Smuts are parasitic fungi that are often spread by pollinators and so, in the case of campions, pollinators pose the double threat of both laying eggs that will hatch into voracious larvae and giving the flower a nasty dose of the clap.

After an attack with weapons of mass destruction by a terrorist group or a terrorist nation, the next major threat to our existence is the violent decay of our civilization due to violence-enabling in the electronic media.

Bilateral symmetry can have grave consequences for a police officer in a tense situation where he is holding a pistol on a suspect.

and shoot-don't-shoot training. This is the Oklahoma v. Tuttle decision (1984, 10th Federal Circuit Court), and today many law enforcement trainers teach that a law enforcement agency is probably not in compliance with federal circuit court guidance if they are still shooting at anything other than a clear, realistic depiction of a deadly force threat.