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• It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Names, Sometimes

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• [N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Secret, Desire

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• If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Medicine, America

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• One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.

  Helen Andelin

  Husband, Careers, Priorities

  Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.99, Bantam

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• ... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

  Parker J. Palmer

  Opportunity, Reality, Views

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• There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christ, Devotion, Greater

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• Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

  Enoch Powell

  Office, Ira, Unions

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• You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Self Esteem, Men, Democracy

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• Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching them to others? Could we defend the Constitution? Can we recognize when a law is constitutionally unsound? Do we know what the prophets have said about the Constitution and the threats to it?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Reading, Teaching, Law

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Race, Order, Population

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• Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

  John Stossel

  Honest, Company, Efficient

  "Market Magic: Competition Polices Companies, and It Sure Beats Regulation and Lawyers". www.abcnews.go.com. April 16, 2008.

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• From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

  James Cook

  America, Communism, Economic

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• The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Problem, States, Solve

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• If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Lying, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That, by the way, is perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard, that climate change is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islamic terrorism.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Islamic, Climate

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• [Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Believe, Islamic

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'" by J. Taylor Rushing, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat, but it's not an existential threat. It is not the preeminent threat facing most Americans on any given day, and yet the power of nightmares is so strong.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Emotional, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Commitment, Insecurity, Liberty

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We`re facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

  Joe Klein

  Military, War, Two

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2013.

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• Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

  Mark Steyn

  Responsibility, Government, Defense

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.51, Regnery Publishing

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• The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Use, Nuclear Proliferation, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Interventions”, p.142, City Lights Publishers

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• Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Opportunity, Play

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• The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.

  George Will

  Simple, Thinking, Civilization

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.335, Crown Forum

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