Best Threat Lines
1399 Threat quotes by 1007 unique authors
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Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown…
— Gloria Steinem
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The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more…
— Kofi Annan
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We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won…
— Bernard Lown
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
— Susan Sontag
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One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the…
— Peter Singer
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It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to…
— Trent Franks
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become…
— Bruce Schneier
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Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we're scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a…
— Vladimir Putin
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too…
— Anna Lindh
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Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
— Noam Chomsky
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved…
— Mario Puzo
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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom
— Margaret Thatcher
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Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.
— John McCain
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What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because…
— Danny Glover
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Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.
— Bill McKibben
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The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
— James Lovelock
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Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding,…
— Uta Hagen
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
— Rupert Murdoch
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For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.…
— Ban Ki-moon
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market…
— Vaclav Klaus
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Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization…
— George Reisman
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