Threat Quotes - Page 27

• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Innovation, Innovative

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• We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.

  Norman Myers

  Country, War, Thinking

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• A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Promise, Consequence

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• A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

  Judy Woodruff

  Nuclear, Weapons, Dangerous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Frustration, White, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It's never fun to read death threats.

  Tim Heidecker

  Fun

  "Tim & Eric". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Sunday, Iran

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Apr 21, 2015

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• For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi". September 30, 1962.

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• Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.

  Sarah Connor

  Real, Moving, Numbness

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• You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Important

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Christian, War, Together

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Trying, Bankers

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• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Anger, Fire, Wind

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press

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• The U.S. came to understand that Bhutto was not a threat to stability but was instead the only possible way that we could guarantee stability and keep the presidency of Musharraf intact.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Guarantees, Bhutto, Way

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• A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

  Rollo May

  Anxiety, Stronger, Persons

  "Psychology and the Human Dilemma". Book by Rollo May, p. 51, 1967.

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• The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, People, Age

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 4, 2004.

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• Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods.
  Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Mean, Greatness, Police

  "Declaration of Conscience‎" by Margaret Chase Smith, (p. 293), 1972.

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• What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Writing, Elephants, Chinese

  "Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2007.

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• America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, America, Use

  "Vice president urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent". usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 16, 2004.

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• At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be met through the broadest possible international cooperation. This principle finds its clearest expression today in the work of the IAEA and its Director General. In the nuclear non-proliferation regime, it is the IAEA which ensures that nuclear energy is not misused for military purposes, and the Director General has stood out as an unafraid advocate of new measures to strengthen that regime.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Military, Expression, Wish

  "Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to IAEA and Director General". www.iaea.org. October 07, 2005.

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• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Israel, Numbers, Peaceful

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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• I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

  Harry Reid

  Hunting, Justice, Terrorism

  Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

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• Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Crime, Bigs, Bigger

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1416, Best Books on

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• After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must take it seriously before it comes to hurt us. In the old days we'd see a threat, and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not. But 9/11 changed it all.

  George W. Bush

  Hurt, Looks, World

  "Candidates tackle Iraq". Debate at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 8, 2004.

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• Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, World, Hussein

  Debate at Washington University, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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