[The world may end up] under a Sword of Damocles … on a tightrope over the abyss.
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Criticising the US Strategic Defense Initiative
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Time Magazine, 11 Mar 1985Andrei Gromyko
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Today, the nuclear bomb is like a Sword of Damocles hanging over us. Will it fall again?
James (science historian) Burke
This result […] will daily stand as a veritable sword of Damocles over every succeeding president and his advisers.
William Rehnquist
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
We are not yet free of peril from the Arabs, who long seriously threatened our existence, and their creation, Mohammedanism, is the greatest of all hindrances to every progress of civilisation, hanging like a sword of Damocles over our slowly and laboriously rising culture in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Much has been said of Mahomet's propagating his Religion by the sword. It is no doubt far nobler what we have to boast of the Christian Religion, that it propagated itself peaceably in the way of preaching and conviction. Yet withal, if we take this for an argument of the truth or falsehood of a religion, there is a radical mistake in it. The sword indeed: but where will you get your sword! Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. In one man's head alone, there it dwells as yet. One man alone of the whole world believes it; there is one man against all men. That he take a sword, and try to propagate with that, will do little for him. You must first get your sword! On the whole, a thing will propagate itself as it can. We do not find, of the Christian Religion either, that it always disdained the sword, when once it had got one.
Thomas Carlyle
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