threat quotes

• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. (Denis Diderot) [patriotism/threat/society]
• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. (Germaine Greer) [security/prison/threat]
• 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 rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. (Susan Sontag) [threat/fantasy/people]
• It's great that American cinema poses such a threat. In France we have all these pseudo-auteurs who don't have a new idea in their heads. (Sophie Marceau) [threat]
• “The folks up in New England are very concerned about it interfering with sugar production. We're concerned about it because it's threat to street trees, trees in the forest and so forth.” (George Hamilton) [threat]
• “We generally get upset about any sort of invasive threat. The latest infestation in Carteret and Woodbridge is resulting in 16,000 to 17,000 trees coming down.” (George Hamilton) [threat]
• We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. (Kevin Costner) [threat/war/think/threat]
• I'm a stranger here. I'm a threat. Definitely. I didn't realize they were so insecure. It just came to me now, but it true. Very insecure. (Pia Zadora) [threat]
• “Everyone's a threat. But I'm real serious. I'm here to be a threat as well.” (Serena Williams) [threat/threat]
• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. (Larry Hagman) [war/war/threat]
• We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free. (Michael Caine) [god/face/threat]
• Today’s agreement does not embrace any renegade fanatic who may wish to still try to carry out a threat to the life of Salman Rushdie (Robin Cook) [embrace/wish/threat/life]
• If the Security Council fails to act decisively in the event of further Iraqi violations this resolution does not constrain any member state from acting to defend itself against the threat posed by Iraq or to enforce relevant United Nations resolutions and protect world peace and security, (John Negroponte) [security/state/threat/]
• We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. (John Negroponte) [face/threat]
• The motivation now is to get the guys that I know that give me a greater threat. (Bernard Hopkins) [motivation/give/threat]
• We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot. (Rachel Corrie) [threat]
• People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. (Marian Wright Edelman) [people/people/threat]
• We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer. (Alan Autry) [threat/fear]

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