#threat

We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#because #been #date #destruction #found

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened. ↗

— Stephen M. Walt

#deterrent #fact #feel #kind #makes

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening. ↗

— Titus Livius

#come #more #only #seem #serious

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ↗

— David Mamet

#ratify #terrifying #threaten #us #which

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. ↗

— John McCain

#doing #fear #give #greatest #iranians

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#did #doing #episodes #first #had

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. ↗

— John Milius

#lot #me #people #thought #threat