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“Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.”

“I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.”

“Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.”

People Ifs May Children Doe Feelings Work Failing Personality Threat Punishment Accomplishment Strongest Decline Old People Incentives

Author:Joe Whitney

“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.”

“Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.”

Should Wells Has Beens War States United Enemy United States Strategy Threat Leaving Borders Iran Occupation Hostile Superpower Charter Deterrent

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The biggest threat to your creativity is the fear that it's already been done, said, created. (So why bother?) Say it, do it, make it anyway - but tell YOUR story along the way. The story of how you came to know what you know. The story of what you want to know more of. The story of why you do what you do. The story of how you came to care. And that's how you create what's never been created before.”

Knows Way Want Said Done Stories Care Creativity Threat What You Want Bother Why Bother

Author:Danielle LaPorte

“I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.”

Ifs Writing Kind Has Beens Might Happens Too Much Failing Police Threat Innocent Threatened

Author:Steig Larsson

“Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb return a kind of insidious threat.”

People Kind Return Let Me Threat Verbs Insidious

Author:John Burnham Schwartz

“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.”

Action Form Company Duty Mass Shots Bases Threat Meetings Terrorism Bread Cards Spots Goods Stations Soviet Factories Resorts Deprived Speculators Bandits

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.”

World Should Government Peace Goal Deals Common Modern Security Development Equal Built Bases Threat Tranquility Adequate Peace And Tranquility Common Goal

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.”

Long Long Time Letters Threat Fbi

Author:Hank Aaron

“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.”

Real Problem Action Earth Moving Found Process Understanding Awareness Danger Empowerment Threat Denial Personal Life Attending Numbness Personal Empowerment

Author:Sarah Connor

“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.”

“We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes”

Should Threat Criminals Violent Online Differentiate Troll Arseholes

Author:Bonnie Greer

“Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.”

Self Self Esteem Identity Criticism Threat Esteem

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.”

Said Speak President Nature Threat Terrorist Isis Mayors Speak The Truth Gist

Author:Bobby Jindal

“In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

Way Life Challenges Security Asking Threat Islam Congress Graves Radical Ministers Addresses Iran Prime Prime Minister Radical Islam

Author:John Boehner

“Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.”

Change Threat Climate Climate Change Our Time

Author:Gina McCarthy

“The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.”

Political Process Community Accepting Threat International International Community

Author:Bernardino Leon

“ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.”

“Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.”

“From earliest times, water has always been acknowledged as a primary human good and an indispensable natural resource. Around the great rivers of the world, like the Mississippi, great cultures have developed, while over the course of the centuries the prosperity of countless societies has been linked to these waterways. Today, however, the great fluvial systems of every continent are exposed to serious threats, often as a result of man's activity and decisions.”

“One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.”

“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?”

Stills Real Would Be Hours Challenges Fate Growing Dangerous Illusion Universal Crisis Threat Climate Environmental Rising Sustainability Immense Penalties 11th Hour

Author:Al Gore

“There is a growing threat to the environment, to the vegetation, animals, water and air. Sacred Scripture hands us the image of Cain who rejects his responsibility: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' The Bible shows the human person as his brother's keeper and the guardian of creation which has been entrusted to him.”

“Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.”

Cities Environment Air Modern Industry Achievement Threat Plant Environmental Planes Pollution Technological Reminders Automobile Jet Nuisance Power Plants Air Pollution Jet Planes

Author:Barry Commoner

“What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.”

Real Pain Water Struggle Focus Effects Danger Fields Wind Tables Threat Misery Environmental Workers Consumers Legacy Poison Farms Pollution Crops Grapes Pesticides

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.”

Knows Today Turns Asks Given Environment Modern Humility Degrees Threat Environmental Yesterday Triumph Chemistry Pollution Asbestos

Author:Denis Hayes

“Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.”

“The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.”

Kind War Stage Threat Deterrence Preemption

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.”

War Threat Defense Guarantees National Defense

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.”

World Littles War Real Too Much Threat Stability American Power

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.”

Together Fighting Practice Threat Injustice Physicians

Author:Samuel Wilson

“Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.”

People World Humans Jobs Pay Violence Promise Slavery Threat Tricks Around The World Good Job Good Education False Promises

Author:Lisa Kristine

“Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.”

“Terrorism threat is serious, and not just to American interests. The assaults in Russia against two airliners, bringing them out of the sky, and against a subway station, and then that horrible scene at the school in Beslan. This kind of terrorist activity no one is immune from it. And so it suggests that we have to do even more together to make sure the civilized worlds join together in the war against terrorism.”

World Kind Two War School Together Interest Sky Scene Activity Threat Terrorism Terrorist Russia Horrible Stations Civilized Assault Immune Subway

Author:Colin Powell

“When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.”

House Cry Amount Honor Shots Threat Fortune South Privilege Heavy California Breakfast Lunch South Africa Good Fortune Nelson Zimbabwe

Author:Denzel Washington

“I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this.”

Knows Want I Can Pay Responsibility Know How Economy Clear Willing Serious Conversation Bills Threat Congress Blowing Up

Author:Barack Obama

“Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.”

World Would Be Mistake Land Serious Consequence Threat Indifference Fanaticism Serious Mistakes

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.”

Security Threat Fearful Traveled

Author:Hugh Hefner

“People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.”

People Long Comfort Prison Threat Adapted

Author:Antony Starr

“Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words.”

Today Violence Century Threat 21st Century Threatened Fanatics Fanaticism Against Violence

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.”

Real Self Country Reason Fighting Example Determination Threat Self Determination Sovereignty Domination Cuba

Author:Assata Shakur

“That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."”

Trying Ideas Whole Government Together Interesting Security Threat Boxes Phrases National Security Very Interesting Citizenry

Author:Howard Zinn

“I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.”

Country Threat Terrorism Diminish Bombing

Author:Howard Zinn

“To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.”

Religion Force Threat Conversion Cowardice

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.”

Self Use Religious Violence Threat Conviction Surrender Self Respect Yield

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much.”

Faces Stuff Internet Threat Bother Threatened

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.”

Character Fighting Battle Shots Threat Rings Bitter Fighter Remarks Caustic

Author:Jack Johnson

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