Quotes about Threats

This storm is dangerous

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now — in the present.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

The threat lies in the realization that in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules are gone forever. We are living in a dangerous and uncertain world that inspires no blind confidence. Our hope arises from the knowledge that even small fluctuations may grow and change the overall structure. As a result, individual activity is not doomed to insignificance

The greatest danger is panic

our early warning system evolved in an era of immediacy, when threats were of the tiger-in-the-bush variety. Things have changed since. Many of today's dangers are probabilistic — the economy might nose-dive, there could be a terrorist attack — and the amygdala can't tell the difference.

We have to be alert because it’s possible that there will be danger. The important thing is to know that this stage is not easy and that we are still in the beginning.”

Fearful concatenation of circumstances.

I am always
in danger.

We ought to have a due sense of the magnitude of the danger with which we are threatened; we ought to meet it in that temper of mind which produces just confidence, which neither despises nor dreads the enemy; and while on the one hand we accurately estimate the danger with which we are threatened at this awful crisis, we must recollect on the other hand what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay, for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for every thing dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: He that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

Danger has a bracing effect.

El riesgo por temor resulta ser de verdad peligroso y ciertamente temible.

Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.