“The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.” NextDangerousCrimeThreatExpansionSophisticationMillennium Author:Rand Beers
“If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.” IfsWayLooksDangerousThreatExaggerationExaggeratedDown The Road Author:Carl Levin
“A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.” DangerousWeaponsThreatNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Judy Woodruff
“To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.” GovernmentMediaDangerousFiguresThreatChinaCriticalSymbolic Author:Ai Weiwei
“Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.” PeopleLooksDeathFearDangerousDangerBlessingCompetitionThreatLook UpThreateningTheologianStimulus Author:Dorothee Solle
“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.” MomentsPastCausesBehindsSituationStepsEconomicDangerousPolicyBattleTasksCrisisThreatInvestingDetermineCurrentsCreditDebateCrucialUrgentCurrent Situation Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.” BelievePersonsGovernmentFormGreaterDangerousAuthorityArmyThreatUrgesDependenceForms Of GovernmentTreasuryCentralization Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.” WorldMatterDangerousCostSafeThreatSecureCyberDangerous World Author:Edward Snowden
“I have heard the critics. What they are spewing are lies, nothing more. My defense policy calls for an efficient and strong military for our country. We live in dangerous times, but we must remember that we have to defend the United States against dangerous and modern threats. The Cold War is ending. Defense hawks like Senator Nunn need to understand this.” NeedsWarCountryStatesRememberLyingStrongUnitedUnited StatesHeardModernMilitaryDangerousPolicyColdThreatCriticsDefenseOur CountryEfficientSenatorsCold WarHawks Author:Mario Cuomo
“Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.” IfsWayGivingHumansKindFacesCoursesGamesSocialSecretFireDangerousCarDangerProjectsGood ThingsThreatDrivingHandleAll KindsSubstancePlanesFrightenedElectricityLsdFreewaysDriving On Author:Alan Watts
“Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?” StillsRealWould BeHoursChallengesFateGrowingDangerousIllusionUniversalCrisisThreatClimateEnvironmentalRisingSustainabilityImmensePenalties11th Hour Author:Al Gore
“Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written.” MenUseGovernmentActionIndividualForceEnemyRightsWrittenDangerousVictimBillsThreatProtectionUnlimitedMonopolyBill Of RightsIndividual RightsPhysical Force Author:Ayn Rand
“Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.” HumansArtSometimesDangerousHuman NaturePositionJudgingCriticismCompetitionGood ThingsThreatBe GoodPeersAway From YouJealouslyRancorJudging You Author:Raymond Pettibon
“I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.” PeopleLongWarFacesEvilEnemySecurityDangerousColdAppreciateThreatWorriedCommunistSovietCold WarSeriousnessNazism Author:Joe Lieberman
“My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?” YearsEndsAmericaFacesPoliticalNationsDangerousDangerSolutionsCrisisThreatAmerican PoliticsAssessmentBipartisanPartisanshipPolitical Leadership Author:Ricardo Sanchez
“The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.” Has BeensWarProblemMightForceAcceptingEnemyMediaMilitaryDangerousEasierThreatIraqGuiltyRemoveIranPropositionsResortsIraq WarIranianMilitary Force Author:Hooman Majd
“And we're being attacked because of what we do, not because of who we are. And by refusing to talk about that, I'm afraid the American people, at least, don't have a good idea of just how dangerous the threat is that we face.” PeopleIdeasFacesDangerousThreatWho We AreGood Ideas Author:Michael Scheuer
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.” WorldWayDangerousThreatTerroristTroopsAmerican Troops Author:Tim Kaine
“The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.” LightCausesPrayerDarknessDangerousBehaviorTrainingOrdinaryShiningThreatResponseViolentPriestsRitualExposedBeamSanctityExorcismExorcistBeams Of Light Author:Gabriele Amorth
“You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.” MovingDangerousSeriousDiseaseThreatProductionsMeatHospitalsMeat Production Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.” ThinkingDangerousThreatSexuality Author:Lars von Trier
“I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation in North Korea has become. I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to China's interests as well.” ThinkingInterestSituationDangerousThreatNorth KoreaDisagreement Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.” ThinkingTryingWarTodayPresidentChallengesDangerousColdCompetitionThreatCold WarWant USuperpower Author:Michael McFaul
“Donald Trump can, for example, imply the threat that federal business will be withheld from some of companies. That's possibly dangerous precedent. You know what I mean? When - the Pentagon has very specific guidelines, for example, when it goes out and does procurement. You don't want them buying a jet engine which is actually inferior to another jet engine simply because that other company outsourced some jobs. The final thing that Trump could do is he could impose tariffs on any products that are imported once they have been outsourced to another country.” MeanCountryDangerousThreatJet Author:Greg Ip
“We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.” WorldWarEasyPresidentExistenceTeachTechnologyDangerousRevolutionThreatScience And TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Ronald Reagan
“Donald Trump's campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. It is built on stoking mistrust and pitting American against American. It`s there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. This man is the nominee of the Party of Abraham Lincoln. We are watching it become the party of Trump. And that`s not just a huge loss for our democracy. It is a threat to it, because Donald Trump`s campaign adds up to an ugly, dangerous message to America.” MenPresidentLossPartyDemocracyDangerousPromiseThreatLifetimeUglyMistrust Author:Hillary Clinton