Threat Quotes - Page 24

• The threat
  of world's end is the old threat.

  Denise Levertov

  World, Ends

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• I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Army, Government

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• I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Death, Religion, Looks

  Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.55, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strength, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Years, Needs

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

  Robert Benchley

  Morning, Coffee, Sunday

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

  Stephen Colbert

  Memories, Media, Foam

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• Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Believe, Men, Emotional

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• Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection.

  Danny Silk

  Choices, Scary, Connections

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• It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.

  Gerald Early

  Children, Simple, Men

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• Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Way

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• Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.

  Benjamin Watson

  Law, Racism, Doubt

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress

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• From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.

  Brian Boitano

  Leadership, Sports, Wisdom

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, cbsnews.cbsig.net. January 26, 2014.

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• One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

  Janet Napolitano

  America, Plot, Citizens

  "Terror Threat 'Most Heightened' Since 9/11, Napolitano Says" by Jason Ryan and Devin Dwyer, abcnews.go.com. February 9, 2011.

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• We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

  Lee Zeldin

  Real, Facts, Okay

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• One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

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• The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Girl, Women, Boys

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

  Ruth Marcus

  Religious, Religion, Terrorism

  "Islamic radicalism: The questions that Rep. Peter King is right to ask". www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Law

  Press Conference by the President, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 15, 2015.

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• Sometimes there is a common threat that can produce a common interest in putting aside all the differences in trying to find a constructive solution.

  Staffan de Mistura

  Differences, Trying, Common

  "U.N. Envoy: Solution To Syrian Conflict Must Be A 'Political One'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. July 30, 2015.

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• You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Government, Law

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Islamic, Russia, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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