Threat Quotes - Page 28

• To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Cowardice, Force

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• To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Yield, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

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• I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Stuff, Faces, Internet

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

  Heidi Julavits

  Country, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

  Jack Johnson

  Character, Fighting, Battle

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

  George W. Bush

  Dark, People, History

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Pain, Apples, Imagination

  Sheri S. Tepper (2013). “Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance”, p.900, Hachette UK

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• Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, Military, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.326, Best Books on

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• The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.

  Dan Quayle

  Political, Challenges, Unemployment

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the extent that people believe they can prevent, terminate, or lessen the severity of aversive events, they have little reason to be perturbed by them. But if they believe they are unable to manage threats safely, they have much cause for apprehension.

  Albert Bandura

  Believe, People, Perspective

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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• Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Arousal

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Coping

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• Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, America, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

  Leon Panetta

  Iraq, Needs, Yemen

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

  Wes Jackson

  Agriculture, Trying, Planets

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Moments, Beats, Given

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Opportunity, Bmw, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• National security, the government is in charge of that. And you better have a president that understands the threats we [the state] face and what we have to do about it and if you can't articulate that as a candidate, you cannot be commander-in-chief.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, President, Faces

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.

  Jeff Cooper

  May, Principles, Surprise

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• Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

  Howard Fineman

  Jobs, Odd One, Retrospect

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• This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Essentials, Showing Love

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• Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, War, Giving

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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Patriotic, Rights, Insightful

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• Adults under threat feel like children.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Adults, Feels

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