Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.
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I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.
So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.
I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.
Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
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.
A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.
Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.
There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.
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.
It borders on irresponsibility when people get on television and start talking that way when they should know better. They should do their homework, and they should report in a responsible manner. Unfortunately, it's a very competitive business, the business we're in, and there is a perception that by hyping up this threat, you draw people's attention.
So scary watching the news. . . Like Iraq. . . could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.
I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.
Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.