Threat Perception Quotes

It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

Either Al Qaeda is a threat worth acting against or it is not. CIA leadership has to decide which it is and cease these bi-polar mood swings.

As a rule, whenever I hear about a demographic threat, it comes first of all from a type of thinking that says the Arabs are a threat. And this leads to thinking of transfer or that they should be killed. I am appalled by this kind of talk.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

The United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

Ain't nobody ever seen a picture of me with no gun. I have my guns for safety.

I view it as a threat to my and my family's well-being whenever anyone seeks to erode or take away my Second Amendment civil liberty.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The Jewish cabal is out to get me.

Knowing what an opponent values is a necessary condition for deterrence success.

You aren't exactly the best judge of what is or isn't dangerous.

The goal of security is common to all human beings; but some of them mistake the direction in which security lies.

Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

The defense industry understands that the military budgets will continue to be cut until a new threat comes along.

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

The distinguishing feature of a revolutionary power is not that they feel threatened—such feeling is inherent in the nature of relationships between sovereign states—but that nothing can reassure it—only the complete elimination and/or destruction of that state.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.