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• The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Fighting, Civilization

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• All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

  Robert Higgs

  Liberty, Horror, States

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• As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

  Noam Chomsky

  Long, Television, Privilege

  Noam Chomsky (1992). “Deterring Democracy”, p.76, Macmillan

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• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Peace, War

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

  Andrew Tudor

  War, Class, Battle

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• In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Years, One Day, Alive

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• It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.

  Matt Ridley

  Dream, Lying, Book

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• Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.

  Richard Carrier

  Christian, Writing, Thinking

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Insecure

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• What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

  Anthony Storr

  Religious, Numbers, Long

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• The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety." If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.

  Morris Sullivan

  Christian, Children, Real

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• The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Iran, Korea

  President Bush's Statement on North Korea Nuclear Test, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 9, 2006.

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• The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, America, Weapons

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.

  Boy George

  Thinking, Competition, Realizing

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.

  Antony Hegarty

  Home, Men, People

  "Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Every time I am on the field I am a threat to make a big play. I am going to do my job every day and can be relied upon.

  Eric Thomas

  Jobs, Play, Fields

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• Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

  Adolf Hitler

  Russia, Germany, Fields

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• Loud threats often indicate deep fears

  Napoleon Hill

  Loud

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• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

  Sam Nunn

  Race, Cooperation, Response

  "Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction". Panel Discussion, www.belfercenter.org. June 27, 2005.

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• The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.

  T. D. Allman

  Powerful, Long, Important

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• If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

  John Pilger

  Real, School, People

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• Our liberties face a far greater threat from Hillary Clinton ... than from Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. I am not saying that for impact; I believe that to the core of my being.

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, Impact, Liberty

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• The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, World

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