#threat

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. ↗

— John Bolton

#body #i #make #only #party

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#ideals #incredible #men #prepared #their

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#companies #downfall #eventual #excuse #feel

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#destruction #develop #engaged #had #into

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#battles #character #country #fallen #fought

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#iraq #larger #part #planet #remove

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗

— Iris Chang

#conditions #could #economic #great #often