Threatened Quotes - Page 9

• People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That’s why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don’t make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They’re hungry for leadership.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Selfish, Thinking

  "Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Government, Organization, Doubt

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years of 'Alice'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 19, 2015.

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• If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Like You, Instinct

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• It used to be that your rights were infringed upon if the government punished or threatened you for expressing your sincerest beliefs. Now, your rights are infringed upon if you want something but someone refuses to buy it for you.

  Matt Walsh

  Government, Want Something, Rights

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• I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Running, Art, Book

  Eugene J. McCarthy (1987). “Up'til Now: A Memoria”, Harcourt

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• Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.

  Dennis Hopper

  Art, Style, Actors

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.

  R. C. Sproul

  Exercise, Age, Church

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• I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

  Steve Antin

  New York, Sunset, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

  Christopher Dodd

  Rights, Knows

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• Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Subsidies, Tariffs

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• We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

  David Limbaugh

  Integrity, Constitution, Assumption

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• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

  John Donne

  Solitude, Hell, Torment

  Awakenings

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• If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Peace, Garden, Turkeys

  "Report: Turkey Considering Invasion of Syria to Establish Buffer Zone". www.haaretz.com. June 29, 2015.

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• A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Strong, Self Esteem, Ego

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.98, Penguin

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• There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Earthquakes, Revolution

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• Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

  James Inhofe

  Israel, Iran, Effort

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• I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Goal, People

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• The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Military, Medicine

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• When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

  Elliott Abrams

  Effort, United States, Should

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• To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

  Kurt Cobain

  Being Positive, Important, Negative

  "Journals". Book by Kurt Cobain, 2002.

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• I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, America, Years

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• People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

  Franklin Foer

  Kfc, People, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Mean, People, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.

  Desmond Tutu

  Opportunity, Beloved Community, Survival

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