Threatened Quotes - Page 17

• I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?

  Ronald Reagan

  Fighting, Differences, Space

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

  Jim Knight

  Real, Squirrels, People

  "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.

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• Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Reality, Understanding, Language

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• Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

  William Allen White

  Fighting, Men, America

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• All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Party, Home, Sleep

  Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, delivered 22 August 1964

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• I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is being threatened as never before in our history. I further witness that this land-the Americas-must be protected, its Constitution upheld, for this is a land foreordained to be the Zion of our God. He expects us as members of the Church and bearers of His priesthood to do all we can to preserve our liberty.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Destiny, Zion, Hands

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• If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Moving, Bored, Enemy

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• Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fool, Threat, Feels

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• When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

  Edward Smith

  Years, Sea, Safety

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• It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

  Hideki Tojo

  War, Struggle, Survival

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Children, Grieving

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

  Evan Thomas

  Leadership, Humble, Self Worth

  Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs

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• And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

  Ralph Ellison

  Winter, Ice, Melting

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.271, Vintage

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• If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth.
  The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.

  Hannah Arendt

  Practice, Storm, Desert

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Strong Women, Gay

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• The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Want, Scared, Feels

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• Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Earth, Financial, Ecological Crisis

  Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.127, North Atlantic Books

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• America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dream, Country, War

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

  William S. Burroughs

  Meaningful, War, Player

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.124, Arcade Publishing

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• The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

  James Madison

  Hands, Danger, Tyranny

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.267, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Country, Hard Work

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• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

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• One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

  Julia Hill

  Life, Prayer, Dark

  "The Legacy of Luna". Book by Julia Butterfly Hill, 2000.

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• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Men, Sense Of Humor

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• As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Groups, Als

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