Country Quote by Graham T. Allison

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

— Richard Greenberg

For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the…

— Ban Ki-moon

Climate change is an existential threat to our economy, and ultimately to civilisation as we know it.

— Clive Lewis

For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don't have…

— Donald Trump

Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap…

— Ban Ki-moon

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

— Robert M. Gates

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

— Michael Mullen

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,'…

— Bob Inglis

My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the State of Israel…

— John McCain

The caliphate will have been dismantled. It will still be a problem, but that has been our focus because that is the greatest existential…

— Joe Biden

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

— John Lanchester

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably…

— Elon Musk