“ Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. ”
- Eugene McCarthy- Copy
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“ I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty. ”
- Louis Kaplan- Copy
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“ Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. ”
- Prince Philip of England- Copy
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“ It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
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“ Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. ”
- Harry Enfield- Copy
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“ I want to help people feel good about themselves, and in turn, about others, so they will have the desire to help others rather than being a selfish threat to society. ”
- Clarence E. Hodges- Copy
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“ Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ”
- Fernanda Bartolme- Copy
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“ Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. ”
- Rick Shuman- Copy
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“ This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Age is no threat to the great men of the mind: with the Dantes and the Michelangelos, to grow older is to grow. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy. ”
- Rita Mae Brown- Copy
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“ The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. ”
- Max Baucus- Copy
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“ By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
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“ I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. ”
- Paul Bremer- Copy
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