Perceived Threats Quotes

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who do fear him.

We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

One has to accept that India is central to this region and that none of the countries in the immediate neighbourhood … particularly relishes this fact. But India cannot change geographically and there is no way it can remove its neighbours’ apprehensions arising out of size and location.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Threats are more readily perceived from culturally dissimilar powers than culturally similar ones.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

One of the frequent blind spots for economic libertarians, speaking as one who has personally dealt with this log in the eye, is a tendency to allow principles of how economies work and the beauty of trade to make us ignore perceived threats animating people who value more than just the power to buy and sell.

I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.