Threat Quotes

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

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

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.

Through the threat of IS, we recognize how important the cooperation with intelligence services (inaudible) first and foremost also with the services of the United States is.

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

Please deal with the Radical Islamic Threat today.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

The threat of world's end is the old threat.

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.