“Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.” FeelingsHateGunAngryJewPeacefulConfusedGermanyEmsOwnersFascismThreatenedLiedDissentPersecutedGun Owners Author:Claire Wolfe
“[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.” FeelsHappensAmericaWhitePracticeTrumpLimitationEncountersThreatened Author:Junot Diaz
“What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.” KnowsWonderfulThreatenedAffectionateNancy Author:Cynthia Nixon
“In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.” PeopleSaidHomeBodyPastBeautifulUsedFrontsBuildingTheaterDenialVacationDisplayColonialismOur PastThreatenedBrazilDowntownPosingRioOld BuildingsBakeries Author:Sonia Braga
“The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.” YearsCertainWonderfulDangerTrainingYears AgoCamerasThreatenedWonderful ThingsReflectingDiscussingVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change.” EconomyClimateClimate ChangeThreatenedColorado Author:Michael Bennet
“We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.” IfsMadeCountryProgressTreasureOur CountryThreatened Author:Barbara Boxer
“There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots of people don't feel better off. They feel threatened, angry and despairing.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensMomentsFeelingsRealityEconomicBenefitsAngryVillageFeel BetterLegislationThreatenedIntegrationBetter OffDiversionGlobal VillageStand Your Ground Author:Duncan Green
“There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.” PeopleWayWantBigsEyeSocialCausesTechnologyCommunicationHappeningsBuiltHarmReactionsThreatenedScenariosSurgeonsArteries Author:Howard Rheingold
“[People] think that they run the world. They think this election's an aberration. They think that [Donald] Trump is subhuman and a gigantic accident and that they're all threatened.” PeopleThinkingWorldRunningTrumpElectionAccidentsThreatenedAberration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn't know what crack was. She didn't know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff - paying her bills and giving her money, so she'd just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.” KnowsGivingSchoolNightHouseStuffSleepWatchesMorningMomNewsBillsCarefulMy MomSellingEveningKicksCracksBe CarefulThreatenedGoing To SleepJamaica Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.” PlanetsOceanThreatened Author:John F. Kerry
“I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.” InterestPreparedThreatenedIntimidated Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.” PeopleWarReasonYoungFightingActiveErasReason WhyVietnamThreatenedImmoralVietnam War Author:Tom Morello
“I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.” WritingAudienceThreatenedReadership Author:William Gibson
“We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.” IfsDemocracyFoundationCarefulThreatened Author:Martin Schulz
“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.” PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag Author:David Swanson
“In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching from the pulpit that homosexual behavior is sinful. Given these trends, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must take a stand on doctrine and principle. This is more than a social issue - ultimately it may be a test of our most basic religious freedoms to teach what we know our Father in Heaven wants us to teach.” KnowsWantMayCountryFatherJesusGivenHeavenSocialChristChurchReligiousPrinciplesTeachIssuesBehaviorMajorsJesus ChristTestsPrisonSaintDoctrineLatterActivistTrendsPreachingThreatenedPastorHomosexualWant USocial IssuesOur FatherReligious FreedomPulpitConcessionsLatter DaysFather In HeavenLatter Day Saints Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingImportantSelfHomeAgeLawForceCan DoDangerousDutyBrokenSafeConflictConceptsAvailableDefenseNeighborhoodRequirementsThreatenedRetreatSelf DefenseEliminatingIfs AndDeadly Force Author:Eric Holder
“All evangelists want to do is share a message about the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. But our world is confused by the confidence we have in the gospel, and is threatened by it. Satan, I am sure, causes those things to echo in the world to increase this sort of common confusion.” WorldWantCausesSinCommonShareMessagesIncreaseConfusionSatanConfusedOur WorldEchoesThreatenedReconciliationEvangelistsForgiveness Of Sins Author:Mark Dever
“These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.” PeopleIfsShouldChildrenLosesCompanyTalkingDoorsTreatedExecutivesMarchJailOfficersThreatenedNeighbourMillionaireFrogsBillionaireDealerDopePharmaceuticalSuburbiaPharmaceutical Companies Author:Anthony Bourdain
“In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.” AmericaDemocracyThreatened Author:Barbara Boxer
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama
“I was approached by Neville Wakefield. I've known Neville for almost a decade, but we had never really worked together. We sort of threatened to work together on a number of other projects but never really did.” TogetherNumbersKnownProjectsDecadesWorking TogetherThreatened Author:Tavares Strachan
“Look at the ozone story. As long as it was the southern hemisphere that was being threatened, there was very little talk about it. When it was discovered in the north, very quickly actions were taken to do something about it. Right now there's discussion of putting serious effort into developing a malaria vaccine, because global warming might extend malaria to the rich countries, so something should be done about it.” ShouldLooksLittlesLongCountryDoneStoriesMightActionEffortRichTakenSeriousRight NowDevelopingDiscussionGlobal WarmingSouthernThreatenedVaccinesHemisphereMalariaRich CountriesOzone Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't know who wants war in America, but I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching out to Russia. And - and they ended up discarding their Marxist Leninist baloney that had threatened the world for so long.” KnowsWorldWantLongWarAmericaColdRussiaReachingReach OutCold WarThreatenedVery HappyMarxistBaloney Author:Dana Rohrabacher
“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.” Has BeensHomeJobsClassSupportWifeMiddlePaidSizeLawyerMiddle ClassFactoriesThreatenedWagesStagnantLikelihoodShrinkingAutomationLiving WageMiddle Class Life Author:Philip Kotler
“If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society. Most American men feel threatened sexually unless they're taller than the female, more intellectual, better educated, better paid and higher placed statuswise in the business world. They've got to be the authority, the final word.” IfsMenWorldFeelsStillsAmericaSocialTalkingHigherAuthorityIntellectualFemalePaidMalesFinalsEducatedThreatenedBetter OffSexuallyBusiness WorldWomen EqualityFinal WordsSocial Equality Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“What you're gonna hear Jim Harbaugh say, many in this country are getting their backs up filled with rage and anger and disbelief, and they are threatened by this. Harbaugh believes in toughness in men, he believes in toughness in America, he believes in toughness in American men. You damn well want it in your Special Forces, gang. You want it with the Navy SEALs. You want it all over the United States military. You want manliness, you want toughness, you want bravery, you want courage.” MenWantBelieveWellsCountryStatesAmericaForceUnitedUnited StatesSpecialMilitaryBraveryFilledRageDamnThreatenedNavyGangDisbeliefSealsToughnessManlinessSpecial ForcesUnited States MilitaryNavy SealRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a no-surrender position. This is how we live. We live in a country in which we have these rights, and we're not going to give them up. Full stop. The end.” GivingEndsCountryNovelRightsViolencePositionResponseSurrenderVideoThreatenedCartoonYoutube Author:Salman Rushdie
“I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to avoid; and how best to relate to other human beings. We differ in how conscious we are of these questions; how reflective we are about our own stances; whether we are aware of how these human virtues are threatened by critiques (philosophical, cultural) and by technologies (chiefly the digital media). A good educator should help us all to navigate our way in this tangled web of virtues.” ThinkingWayShouldHumansHelpingHuman BeingsTechnologyVirtueMediaConsciousConcernedPhilosophicalRelateDigitalCherishThreatenedCritiqueEducatorStanceNavigateTangledDigital MediaTangled Webs Author:Howard Gardner
“Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."” WorldWarStatesReasonUsedUnitedUnited StatesSecurityMilitaryThousandBasesDefenseAround The WorldBordersPhrasesWar Of The WorldsBritainThreatenedNational SecuritySecond World War1930sMilitary Bases Author:Noam Chomsky
“Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.” PeopleMightTaughtDevelopmentThreatenedDisturbingBacklashMerging Author:Ninian Smart
“I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesBattleDebateScareDisagreeThreatenedIdeologicalFraming Author:Barbara Kruger
“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.” MenWorldLiteratureBlackWhiteAcceptingDefinitionsRefuseThreatened Author:James A. Baldwin
“When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.” Life IsFightingUrgesThreatened Author:Laura Linney
“Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.” StillsProblemEnergyLossEnvironmentClimateClimate ChangeIncludingDespiteRangeFuelGlobal WarmingDependenceThreatenedFossilsOur EnvironmentFossil FuelBiodiversityBurning Fossil FuelsEnvironmental Change Author:Dan Lipinski
“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” IfsReasonWantedDiesStageWillingThreatScaryProfessionReason WhyReceivingThreatenedWilling To Die Author:Marilyn Manson
“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.” YearsFirstsSeasonsStrikesEpisodesThreatened Author:Christopher Meloni
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” WholeGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsEnergyFreedomLibertyDemocracyEnvironmentSocietyCitizensAimSafetyThreatHistoricalSeriesClimate ChangeLibertarianPracticalsEndlessTyrannyIndividualismImaginaryThreatenedFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyProperty RightsMenacePeace WarLimited GovernmentDemocracies HaveLimiting GovernmentClamorLibertarian PartyLimited FreedomPolitical WillGreat LibertarianPolitical IssuesGovernment BureaucracyPrice Of FreedomLimiting FreedomSocial ControlCabalGovernment And PoliticsVoting Founding FathersMoney In Politics Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” PeopleHardUseYoungDesireEvilNaturalHard WorkCatholicSatisfactionTechniqueAdvertisingThreatenedInclination Author:Pope John Paul II
“Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.” BelieveBigsNextLibertyStepsEventsCrisisDollarsRejectionBelieve In MeCurrencyThreatenedNext StepsPersonal LibertyBig Events Author:Ron Paul
“Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?” ThinkingKnowsWellsDoeQuittingThreatened Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.” PeopleIfsFeelingsLife IsEconomicLonelinessBasesConnectedComplainingThreatenedDisconnectedness Author:Steven Pinker
“The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.” WorldReligiousWesternSecularThreatenedFanaticismWestern WorldMuslim World Author:Dennis Prager
“In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.” MindFactsDesireLeaderClassLandDangerNotionEastPropagandaThreatenedRulingHysteriaDeep Desire Author:Paul Robeson
“In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.” WorldFeelsDifferencesThreatenedInterconnectedInterconnected World Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.” IdeasMatterCultureSacredMusicalDecadesExistentialismExistentialThreatenedInnovative Author:Archie Shepp
“I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.” FirstsAgeFatherPrideShotsHolidayLionsThreatenedLivestock Author:Wilbur Smith