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Quotes About Threatening

My ideas are threatening to the government.
~ Fela Kuti
I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.
~ Kevin Hart
Radical feminism is still threatening.
~ Mary Daly
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.
~ Richard Herring
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
~ Robin Morgan
I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
~ M.I.A.
This is where I would lodge my deepest criticisms. We have very whimsically been threatening and then backing off of tariffs. The people who are paying the price for the lack of strategy are North Carolina consumers who are paying more for durable goods and North Carolina farmers who don't have markets today.
~ Cal Cunningham
There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.
~ Dan Donovan
Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs: The moment where it no longer wants to allow dissent.
~ Zephyr Teachout
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.
~ Mike Barnicle
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
~ Martha McSally
Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.
~ Brianna Wu
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
~ Jan C. Ting
There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
~ David Levering Lewis
Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.
~ Thom Tillis
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
~ John Waters
The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is forcing unwarranted higher energy costs upon Americans and further threatening an already sluggish economic recovery.
~ Luther Strange
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?
~ Sheila Heti
Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn't sound that threatening.
~ Sam Fender
Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.
~ Taboo
A riot's unchecked destruction of livelihoods and property is certainly newsworthy, threatening as it does the very possibility of civilization.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.
~ Jaime Harrison