Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats. - Matshona Dhliwayo
pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. - Arthur C. Brooks
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. - Timothy Garton Ash
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it.
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. - Stephen Leacock
The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business. - Steven Magee
In life; threats, misery and pain weigh the same. - Auliq Ice
Black people are either threats or entertainment. - Darnell Lamont Walker
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. - Marie De France
Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.
We need to move from the existing culture of compliance in cybersecurity to developing a culture of excellence in mitigating Cyber threats. - Arzak Khan
Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a law officers health and wellbeing. - Steve Neal
The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat. - Stefan Molyneux