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Quotes About Attack

The probability that an average American will die in a given year from a terrorist attack is roughly 1 in 5 million; he is 575 times more likely to commit suicide.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Terrorism is effective because it imposes costs on everyone, not just its direct victims. The most substantial of these indirect costs is fear of a future attack, even though such fear is grossly misplaced. The probability that an average American will die in a given year from a terrorist attack is roughly 1 in 5 million; he is 575 times more likely to commit suicide.
~ Steven D. Levitt
his book On Nuclear Terrorism, Levi laid out all the things that would have to go right for a terrorist nuclear attack to succeed, noting, "Murphy's Law of Nuclear Terrorism: What can go wrong might go wrong."278 Mueller counts twenty obstacles on the path and notes that even if a terrorist group had a fifty-fifty chance of clearing every one, the aggregate odds of its success would be one in a million.
~ Steven Pinker
So I'm putting my defenses up, cause I don't wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I'd have a heart attack.
~ Demi Lovato
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
~ Joseph Addison
Cats who didn't want to attack WindClan, Lionblaze realized. Firestar isn't taking any risks.
~ Erin Hunter
What if we come across Tigerstar?" asked Sandstorm. "A cat from another Clan on our territory?" Fireheart bared his teeth. "Yes, you can attack him." Cloudtail let out a growl of satisfaction. Gulping down the last of his fresh-kill, Fireheart led the
~ Erin Hunter
Bluekit's paws buckled as the plump squirrel rolled off the top of the pile and flattened her. Ooof! Purrs of amusement erupted from the two warriors beside the nettle patch. "I've never seen fresh-kill attack a cat before!" meowed one of them. "Careful!" warned the other warrior. "All that fluff might choke you!
~ Erin Hunter
Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack.
~ Erin Hunter
Quick Water—had just tried to kill her.
~ Erin Hunter
Midnight turned away from him. "Foxes say you must go now," she told the cats. "If you still here at sunset, they attack. That dog fox, he says he tasted cat once, liked it fine.
~ Erin Hunter
That's a huge Twoleg!" Nettlekit squealed. "We have to scare him off, or he'll attack the camp." "I'm going to be Sharpclaw!" Plumkit announced. "I'll lead the attack!" "But I want to be Sharpclaw!" Rabbitkit charged into his sister, pushing her over in a flurry of paws and tail. "Anyway, you're a she-cat, mouse-brain. You can't be Sharpclaw.
~ Erin Hunter
Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we'd just come under attack. Then I realized we'd just broken the sound barrier.
~ Ernest Cline
Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
~ Ernest Istook
What is cancer, he thought to himself, if not a terrorist attack from above? What is it that God is doing, if not terrorizing us in protest against...something. Something so lofty and transcendental that it is beyond our grasp?
~ Etgar Keret
Our beloved country is being attacked and we must be loyal to it; in times of crisis it is not right to criticize your leaders. It is disloyal, an act of treachery." Using jingoist language is far easier than taking responsibility for righteousness in the nation. Far easier to shout patriotic slogans than to work patriotically for justice.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.
~ Jared Polis
Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes. Bin Laden believed that without that American support, the Arab regimes would collapse and would be replaced by Taliban-style rulers.
~ Peter Bergen
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.
~ Doug Ducey
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
~ Van Jones
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.
~ Heather Brooke