Threatened Quotes

“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat than other experiences, and they interpret ambiguous stimuli and situations as threatening (Eyesenck, 1992), leading to more fear-driven decisions. In people with a dissociative disorder, certain parts are compelled to focus on the perception of danger. Living in trauma-time, these dissociative parts immediately perceive the present as being "just like" the past and "emergency" emotions such as fear, rage, or terror are immediately evoked, which compel impulsive decisions to engage in defensive behaviors (freeze, flight, fight, or collapse). When parts of you are triggered, more rational and grounded parts may be overwhelmed and unable to make effective decisions.”
― Suzette Boon, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

“The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Do not be threatened by rude people because rudeness is a sign of insecurity.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even eviction from home if they do not 'toe-the-line' and 'act straight'. I don't think parents who do such things consider for a moment the kind of emotional damage they are doing to their children - or thinking beyond their own feelings about the situation - which will not change or go away simply because of their denial.”
― Christina Engela, All That Remains

“Do not be threatened by rude people, because rudeness is a sign of insecurity.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.”
― Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire

“There are many who say ‘I believe this,’ but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.”
― Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

“Sometimes what we have is valued the most when it is most fragile, when it is most threatened.”
― Ari Gunzburg, The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny

“The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?”
― Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire

“Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.”
― Christina Engela

“You. Can I trust you?”

“You’ve threatened me, belittled me, mocked me and manhandled me.”

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“I’d say that since none of that has achieved the results you wanted, you could certainly afford to choose a different course.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”
― Richie Norton

“Three airport police officers threatened to arrest me eleven times while I was on my vacation and doing nothing wrong!”
― Steven Magee

“In a toxic encounter with police officers, I was threatened with arrest and jail eleven times!”
― Steven Magee

“Don't threat, just act – Threats are Ammunition for the Threatened.”
― Sino Melo