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#threat

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People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.


Jasmine Guy


#demonize #maintain #need #order #others

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.


Jurgen Habermas


#channels #dangers #embarrassing #nation #perhaps

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.


Bobby Jindal


#breaking #enforcement #illegal #immigrant #individual

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.


John McCain


#collective consciousness #consciousness #core #dare #deeply

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#threats #humor

His fingers gouged into my leg harder. "My sister was in that cafeteria," he said. "She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She still has nightmares about it. He got what he deserved, but you got a free pass. That ain't right. You should've died that day, Sister Death. Everyone wishes you would have. Look around. Where is Jessica, if she wants you here so bad? Even the friends you came here with don't want to be with you." "Let go of me," I said again, pulling on his fingers. But he only pinched tighter. "Your boyfriend isn't the only one who can get his hands on a gun," he said. Slowly he eased himself up to standing again. He reached into the waistband of his jeans and pulled out something small and dark. He pointed it at me, and when the moonlight hit it, I gasped and pressed myself against the barn wall.


Jennifer Brown


#hate #school-shooting #threats #death

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.


Roman historian Polybius


#death

(...) or there will be a reckoning!


Terry Pratchett


#tiffany-aching #men

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.


Jim Gerlach


#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?


Dustin Hoffman


#invading #threat #why






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