“Saying that English is “under threat” is something like saying that gravity and the use of the fork are under threat. It” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
“This assault was a promise of pleasure, a veiled threat, and quite clearly just the beginning of all this man had to… — Maggie Wells Copy Share Image
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and… — Tim Lee Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Shannen Rossmiller's work in exposing Islamic terrorists has genuinely made our country safer. She has dedicated her life to combating the terrorist… — Steven Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
You will tell me what you know now," he said. "Or?" He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that." "Gristly?" I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“You better not tup our sister! Or you’ll be having us to deal with, Braden MacAllister! (Duncan) Could I please just deal… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple:… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
“Listen to me well, Low Born, don’t think for a second I won’t cut your heart from your worthless hide and wear… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to… — Giulio Douhet Copy Share Image
I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's… — George Takei Copy Share Image
It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image