Threatened Quotes - Page 22

• We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Debt

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.

  Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

  Real, Book, Shadow Of Death

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• Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.

  Andy Serkis

  Design, Gorillas, Made

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• Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Men, Feminism, Behavior

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• I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.

  Tom Marino

  Years, Drug, Parks

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hatred, Emotion, Behinds

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• There are more men threatned then stricken.
  [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

  George Herbert

  Men

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  Steig Larsson

  Rights, Years, Police

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• My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

  Dorothy Arzner

  Philosophy, Way, Directors

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• In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Thinking, Infidelity, Mind

  Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books

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• The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

  Peter MacKay

  Law, Justice, Democracy

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• Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.

  Preston Manning

  Country, Political, Black

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• If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

  Rob Bell

  Ifs

  Rob Bell (2014). “What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A”, p.4, HarperCollins

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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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• In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.

  Bryan Fischer

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

  George D. Prentice

  Habit, Fortresses, Proportion

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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• Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.

  Neil Strauss

  Powerful, Hate, Guy

  "Pickup artist Neil Strauss". Interview with Clarisse Thorn, www.timeout.com. March 23, 2011.

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• When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

  Bruno Tonioli

  People, Belittle, Feels

  "I was the only gay in my village..Humor helped me to beat the bullies". www.mirror.co.uk. November 26, 2005.

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• TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

  Peter Scott

  Falling In Love, Reality, People

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• Revive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of the pack that piled on Klein, America’s progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Minorities, Authority

  "Bullied 'Jail Bus' Lady: Fearful Fatty, Not a Hero". www.wnd.com. June 29, 2012.

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• ...He went to Scotland and studied under Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice in every hospital in Philadelphia.

  Paul Douglas

  Crazy, Dark, Opportunity

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• No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

  Christopher Ryan

  Needs, Accord, Creatures

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• Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

  Voltaire

  Hope, Virtue, Should

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.318

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