Threat Response Battle

Famous quotes containing the words threat, response and/or battle:

    “We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “That civilisation may not sink,
    Its great battle lost,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)