Existential Threat Quotes

#1. From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

Trita Parsi

#2. Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

Jane Harman

#4. I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat, but it's not an existential threat. It is not the preeminent threat facing most Americans on any given day, and yet the power of nightmares is so strong.

Jeremy Scahill

#5. So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Bob Inglis

#6. When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Richard Greenberg

#7. ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.

Joe Biden

#8. The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Michael Mullen

#9. Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, they all have ties to Iranian money. I think they are the biggest exist - existential threat. Russia could be up there, but it would probably be to one of our NATO allies rather than the homeland.

Eric Bolling

#10. I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it ... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

Nicola Sturgeon

#11. For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

Ban Ki-moon

#12. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

#13. The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

John Lanchester

#14. I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful ... With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

Elon Musk

#15. Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

Robert M. Gates

#16. We were a little more fallen than the bosses were comfortable with." Adrian grinned like a motherfucker. "As I mentioned, I like the ladies." "Usually in pairs.

J.R. Ward

#17. People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

Gloria Gaynor

#18. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same

Bram Stoker

#19. I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

Jason Earles

#20. Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter, and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.

Charles Dickens

#21. There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Bob Hawke

#22. God ever arithmetizes.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#23. It was as if the beach had gotten inside, changed how she weighed outcomes and causes. She leaned down and took her sandals off. This sand, so soft and white, was now her favorite pair of shoes.

Debra Anastasia

#24. The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Preet Bharara

#25. The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

Irwin Edman

#26. When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman.

Dolly Parton

#27. And no one thinks they are to blame. Why can't we see that when we bleed, we bleed the same?

Muse

#28. When you embrace worthiness, you stop worrying about what "they" think because you've made peace with what YOU think.

Shannon Yvette Tanner

#29. Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

Shia Labeouf