“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.” MaySelfWisdomSpiritualLossExistenceAnxietyThreatPsychologicalMeaninglessness Author:Paul Tillich
“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.” SeemsLossThreatChecksTolerateCommodityAvailabilityImposition Book:Fado Source: Fado
“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.” ThinkingPersonsIdeasSeemsSocialLossGriefEconomicLosingThreatPrivilegeFollowingConvictionLovelyLogicalFairnessIncapableSequencePremisesAlarmsLucidity Author:Storm Jameson
“In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.” PeopleWholeLossConditionsCatDiedThreatKillingMourningClosestEgyptEyebrowsWhole FamilyShavingClosest FriendsPersonal Loss Author:Roger Caras
“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.” MayImportantForceLossLimitsBehaviorPerceptionSurvivalGainsThreatProfitDrivingDriving ForceProfit Maximization Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.” WorldImportantMovingNextLossAttentionEventsMindfulnessConnectionsThreatResponseConsideringFrantic Author:Barnet Bain
“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
“When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.” WorldGivingKindDifferentTodayLossPerfectThreatVarious Author:Wang Jianwei
“Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.” MenHardFactsWould BeFoundDifficultLossLeaderSonConcernedThreatDefeatRageLoyaltyCommandStaringJudgementGesturesFanaticsSpicesDukes Book:DUNE Source: DUNE