#threat

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. ↗

— William Scranton

#going #health #panic #people #threat

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#criticism #freedom #greatest #greatest threat #threat

I did so many things that made me a threat. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#i #made #many #me #things

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#been #countries #important #much #order

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#did #future #promise #switch #threat

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#boasting #killing #rage #threats #warning

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted