Threat Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Injustice, Anywhere

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur

Great, Working, Nation

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Kurt Cobain

Problem, Average, Macho

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama

Everything, Cannot, President

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

Nature, Mind, Another

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama

Important, Understand, President

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Ignore, America, Cannot

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk

Future, Promise, Switch

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
Hillary Clinton

Society, Reality, Challenge

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.
Hillary Clinton

Lives, Anyone, Beyond

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

Emotional, Joy, Between

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka

Freedom, Greatest, Criticism

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

Today, America, Suffering

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.
Richard Dawkins

Truth, Science, America

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy

Death, Others, Suffering

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Racism, Hatred, Reason

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

Truth, Nothing, Whole

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Mason Cooley

Soul, Comfort, Doctrine

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
Jesse Jackson

Money, Death, Two

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Kwame Nkrumah

Peace, Destiny, Serious

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

War, Winning, Against

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp

Thought, Means, Won

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Dave Barry

Real, Endangered, Whales

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Parents, President

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Stop, Obamacare

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Noam Chomsky

Iraq, Reasonable, Increase

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Billy Corgan

God, Idea, Gods

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn

Religion, Politics, Islam

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
Denis Diderot

Society, Patriotism, Motive

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