Threat Quotes - Page 18

• Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.

  David Boaz

  War, Men, Class

  David Boaz (2015). “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.

  Ye Xiaowen

  Community, Doubt, Development

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• When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

  Laurence Gartel

  Art, Jobs, Individuality

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• Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

  Kobo Abe

  Punishment, Joy, Flight

  "No escape" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Real, Choices, Decision

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.130, Random House

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• Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Hands, Violence

  Edmund Morris (2010). “Theodore Rex”, p.60, Random House

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• The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.

  Ian Bremmer

  Curves, Risk, Transition

  "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.

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• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Priorities, Receiving

  "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

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• The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Courage, Fighting, Democracy

  "Journeying to democracy" by Benazir Bhutto, archive.boston.com. October 18, 2007.

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• The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Individual Strength, Church, Weakness

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

  Maria Montessori

  Responsibility, Survival, Abandoned

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• Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

  Paul Tillich

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Loss

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• In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

  Andrew Tobias

  America, Would Be, Cost

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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• The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Real, Apples, Adoption

  "Interview with Icculus". LinuxGames, May 13, 2007.

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• Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Moving, People, Canada

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Numbers, Guy, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us. [...] We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  War, Blow, Scare

  President Serzh Sargsyan speaks after the military exercises, www.president.am. November 13, 2010.

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• One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.

  Herbert Schiller

  Order, World, Growing

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business. The threat to drop research coverage if Piper were not selected as the lead underwriter for a secondary offering was totally inappropriate and undermines the integrity of the market.

  Mary Schapiro

  Integrity, Offering, Banking

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• The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

  Brother Ali

  Bombs, Harm

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• Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

  Terry Tamminen

  Water, Greed, Desert

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• The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Ideas, People, Movement

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2005.

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• ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!

  Rick Perry

  Isis, Communism, Worst

  "New Perry ad: I'm the only veteran in the 2016 field" by Adam B. Lerner, www.politico.com. February 27, 2015.

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• There are reports that Russia is actually working with North Korea to encourage “collaboration and cooperation” between the two countries. Yeah, they believe that with Russia's economic power and North Korea's technology, they can be a real threat to 1987.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Real, Believe

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• The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Long Ago, People, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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