Threatened Quotes - Page 18

• Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Rome

  "John Dominic Crossan's 'blasphemous' portrait of Jesus". Interview with John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2011.

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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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• What's important to do is we must deal frontally with this threat of radical Islamists, especially from ISIS. This is the most sophisticated terror group that has ever threatened the world or the United States of America.

  Marco Rubio

  Isis, America, Important

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Law, Enforcement

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• If we want to destroy ISIS,if we expect to do this on our own, we will fail but if we do it in unison with people who are also are at risk and threatened by Islamic Radical terrorism, we'll be far more successful.

  Jeb Bush

  Islamic, Successful, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  William Orbit

  Thinking, Parent, Listening

  Interview with Sarah Williams, www.femalefirst.co.uk. February 4, 2006.

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• I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

  Ben Stein

  Beautiful, People, Tree

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Suicide, Stupid, People

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• Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

  William Henry Houghton

  Names, People, Moses

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• President Obama met with ten House Democrats opposed to the health care bill. He did all he could to get their votes. He promised to campaign for them in their districts and when that didn't work, he threatened to campaign for them in their districts.

  Argus Hamilton

  House, President, Campaigns

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• President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

  Argus Hamilton

  Iran, Mind, President

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• America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they imposed punishment on Germany. What became of Germany? A Nazi dictatorship which threatened the world. Today's Germany doesn't feel as prosperous and generous as America then. But actually, Germany still is very prosperous.

  George Soros

  War, Mistake, Punishment

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  Warren Buffett

  Criminals, Financial, Institutions

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• North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Korea, Style, Missiles

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• America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Past, Shoes

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• The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

  Gregory Bateson

  World, Tides, Pool

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• I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Moving, Parent

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

  Kola Boof

  London, Osama Bin Laden, Guardian

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Needs, Interest

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• [Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.

  James Brokenshire

  Numbers, Years, Scotland

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden.

  Heidi Julavits

  Daughter, Sleep, Emotional

  Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved trait characteristic of our species, as the standard narrative insists, these ubiquitous transgressions would be infrequent and such horrible enforcement unnecessary. No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Running, Careers, Presidential

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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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• We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

  Jeb Bush

  Isis, Needs, World

  Jeb Bush at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, www.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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