Threatened Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  Imogen Poots

  Thinking, Sometimes, Crushed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, Space, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Sorry, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.

  Martin Schulz

  Airplane, Peninsulas, Sinai

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Sea, Royal

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.

  Willie Aames

  Doors, Rottweilers, Reason

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• I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!

  B. C. Forbes

  Commitment, Government, Knives

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• Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

  Suzy Kassem

  Wall, Men, Long

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• We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

  Walter Cronkite

  Ignorant, Democracy, Precipice

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• We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

  Marc Andreessen

  People, Employee, Managers

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• Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

  Chapman Cohen

  Lying, Compliment, Conquer

  Chapman Cohen (1900). “Opinions, Random Reflections, and Wayside Sayings”

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

  Nido R Qubein

  Way, Niche, Achieve

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• A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?

  Chelsea Handler

  Islands, July, Guy

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• People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

  Enele Sopoaga

  People, World, Population

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

  Lena Dunham

  Position Of Power, People, Young

  "Lena Dunham Is Building an Empire". Interview with Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

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• The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

  Serge Lang

  Political, Intellectual, Isms

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