It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!
We must carefully examine regulations that could threaten the state of Arizona's water and power supply.
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
Top-down government programs threaten to limit the freedom and opportunity that made this country great.
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.
Theatre owners cannot threaten actors with defamation cases and take them to court or seek compensation for losses incurred.
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and existing world.
A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
I feel like I just have the ability to threaten from any position, whether we're standing or the fight is on the ground.
The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom
They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.
The safety and security of all Americans is at stake in Ukraine and anywhere that our adversaries threaten the cause of freedom.
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
There are, of course, some who demand a no-deal Brexit and threaten to vote for any party that will deliver it.
The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.
Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.
The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.
Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.
This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.
When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
During my five-year presidency, no one, and I mean no one under any pretext can threaten the country's interest. It puts the nation in danger.
We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
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