Quotation Explorer - 'Security'

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. - Lois McMaster Bujold
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. - Vladimir Nabokov
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Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it - Herman Cain
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three. - Grantly Dick-Read
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. - Morris L. West
Security is superstitious. It doesn't exist in nature - Naeem Baig
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton
As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush
Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church - Sunday Adelaja
No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole. - Nayef Al-Rodhan
Emotional security is just as important as financial security. - P.K. Shaw
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security for the minorities. - Lord Acton
I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well. - Gordon B. Hinckley
I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life. - Nurudeen Ushawu
During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare. - Indy Bissessur
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. - Peter O'Toole
The SECRET to financial security is not to have more money, but having MORE CONTROL over the money we presently have. - Auliq-Ice
The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. - Margaret Cho
If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority! - Israelmore Ayivor
Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. ( Book/page 33) - Narcotics Anonymous
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. - Anne Rice
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. - John F. Kennedy
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working. - Rachel Maddow
Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you; but can be a reflection of who they are. - Steve Maraboli
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security. - Elisabeth Elliot
When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains. - P. Wish
Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
See life as an adventure. There is no security in being feeble. Be brave, be exciting. Be creative. Live’. - Ane Krstevska
We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals. - Amit Kalantri
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. - John Kerry
To know that you are loved gives you confidence, security and fulfilment in life. - Euginia Herlihy
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom - Franklin D. Roosevelt
the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty. - Baruch Spinoza
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. - Ann Radcliffe
Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101. - Tarryn Tomlinson
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Security is a kind of death. - Tennessee Williams
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else. - Brian L. Weiss
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly - Jo Ann Davis
Why him?He was as likely to offer me security and safety as a violent terrorist holding a gun to my head.So why I had chosen him?Because he had charmed me into a love affair,had truly convinced me he was madly in love with me. - Barbara Taylor Bradford
DARING, n. One of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security. - Ambrose Bierce
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain. - Albert Einstein
A house without security cannot be a home! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Benjamin Franklin
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. - Seneca
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. - George W. Bush
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. - Jan Blaustone
Quality brings security and confidence - Sunday Adelaja
An understanding of our position in Christ gives us security - Sunday Adelaja
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. - Confucius
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. - Germaine Greer
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. - Dame Edna Everage
Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy. - Sieg Pedde
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. - Walter Lippmann
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths. - James Madison
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. - Edmund Burke
Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity. - David Sheldrick
There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense - James Scott
Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together. - Csaba Gabor-B.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders - Dan Farmer
A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability. - Amit Kalantri
The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present. - Israelmore Ayivor
...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. - Vera Brittain
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. - Helen Keller
The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation - Blake Higginbotham
When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within. - Samael Aun Weor
We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure - James Scott
How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. - Sylvia Plath
For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life. - Debasish Mridha
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. - Marge Piercy
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
We're not a security guard company. We sell a *concept* of security.
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country. - George W. Bush
As we've come to realize, the idea that security starts and ends with the purchase of a prepackaged firewall is simply misguided - Art Wittmann
Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery. - Amit Kalantri
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. Byrnes
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. - Germaine Greer
A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity - lauren klarfeld
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. - Adam Smith
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial. - Charles R. Swindoll
Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty. - George W. Bush
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife. - Roman Payne
With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings. - Capt Tom Bunn LCSW
For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty. - Debasish Mridha
Now, don't get me wrong, I think border security is important. And I have no doubt that the Republican plan for turning our southern border into The Hunger Games will put a stop to the #1 threat facing America today illegal cleaning ladies. - Bill Maher
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. - Benjamin Franklin
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. - Brian Tracy
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. - Susan B. Anthony
The only person who lives in the PRESENT is perhaps Daily Wage Earner with no bank balance and security amount, for he doesn't worry about the future. - Anuj Somany
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. - Thomas Paine
Security is a process, not a product.
The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country. - Steven Magee
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked - Richard Clarke
There is no perfect security only maximum temporary security - Gun Gun Febrianza
Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel. - Mark Gough
It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. - George R.R. Martin
If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. - Joseph Rotblat
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. - Gail Sheehy
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. - Alan Cohen
The health sector continuously get’s pummeled by malicious actors and hackers because their cyber-kinetic security is being managed by Participation Trophy winning wimps! - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength, - Dwight D. Eisenhower
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.
My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone. - John Scalzi
Faith is secured by adversity, but endangered by security. - Margaret Jensen
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. - Gustave de Molinari
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