Best Threatens Quotes
201 Threatens quotes by 181 unique authors
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The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
— Michael Pare
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The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, and…
— William J. Clinton
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To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream…
— Unknown Author
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The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the…
— Edward Abbey
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Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
— Erich Fromm
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If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once…
— Walter Benjamin
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The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already…
— Martin Heidegger
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The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control
— Martin Heidegger
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
— Barry Commoner
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Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.
— Edward Davey
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The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,…
— Sam Keen
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This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation,…
— Viktor Schauberger
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of…
— John Stuart Mill
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Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require…
— Forrest Church
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We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black…
— June Jordan
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We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the…
— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
— Thomas Merton
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Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds…
— Pat Buchanan
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The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its…
— Gerda Lerner
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Picasso painted with passion, Mozart composed with it. A child plays with it all day long. You may think you’ve lost your passion, or that you…
— Steven Pressfield
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Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here.…
— Marine Le Pen
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The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the…
— Edward Heath
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
— Edward Coke
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American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may…
— Diane Ravitch
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