Threat Quotes - Page 15

• Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.

  Anthony Principi

  Successful, Technology, Changing Environment

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• Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

  Harry Redknapp

  Wife, Journalist, Washing

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• Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

  Eddie Gibbs

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Ocean, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is partitioned. An unnatural line runs through the heart of a very great and a very proud nation [Germany]. History warns us that until this harsh division has been resolved, peace in Europe will never be secure. We must turn to one of the great unfinished tasks of our generationand that unfinished task is making Europe whole again.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Peace, Heart

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• The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

  John C. Stennis

  Promise, Navy, World

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• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

  Rachel Carson

  Intelligent, Disease And Death, Kind

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

  Robert Bourassa

  Tired, Police, Diplomats

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• This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Jail

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.72, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

  Betty Shabazz

  Six, Seven

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• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Innovation, Innovative

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• A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Iraq, Paris

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• Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.

  Frederick Lenz

  Husband, Women, Survival

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• We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.

  Norman Myers

  Country, War, Thinking

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• A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Promise, Consequence

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• When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

  Jake Ellenberger

  Mma, Littles, Bits

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• A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

  Judy Woodruff

  Nuclear, Weapons, Dangerous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, White, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• посол Ирака говорит Our fight - the fight is against ISIS as an entity, as an identity, and as a threat to our culture, our heritage and certainly for the minorities who it's been able to exterminate or try to enslave and others.

  Lukman Faily

  Fighting, Isis, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.

  George Packer

  Gay, Games, Campaigns

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• Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Effort, Mind

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• The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Needs, Faces, Serious

  Campaign address, Syracuse, N.Y., 29 Sept. 1936

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• It's never fun to read death threats.

  Tim Heidecker

  Fun

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Sunday, Iran

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Apr 21, 2015

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• Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

  John Bonifaz

  Fighting, Play, Political

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