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Quotes About Safeguards

Safeguards already exist against the release of such a dangerous virus, but steps must be taken to further strengthen them and add new layers of security. In particular, if a new virus suddenly erupts in some distant place on Earth, scientists must strengthen rapid-response teams that can isolate the virus in the wild, sequence its genes, and then quickly prepare a vaccine to prevent its spread.
~ Michio Kaku
The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.
~ Richard Edelman
If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.
~ Alisson
One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
~ William F. Lynch
We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
~ Jan Koum
It reminds me that in spite of our lofty ideals and the many safeguards to protect the Scythedom from corruption and depravity, we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature. I fear for us all if scythes begin to love what they do. —From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie
~ Neal Shusterman
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
~ George Michael
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
~ Beau Willimon
The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.
~ Glenn Greenwald
You need to go to ground now," Gregori pointed out. "I will fix the safeguards and ensure we are not disturbed." "With a big sign saying 'Gregori lies here, do not disturb'?" Mikhail asked softly, his voice a warning.
~ Christine Feehan
I should have realized your needs and anticipated them. Knowing you were alone, I should have set better safeguards to protect you." "Mikhail, I am capable of looking after myself." Her blue eyes were very earnest, impressing on him the truth of her words. He really didn't need to worry. Mikhail did his best to keep from smiling.
~ Christine Feehan
At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.
~ Amber Valletta
Preventing staff from having too much influence and decision-making power is fairly easy. Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.
~ Michael O'Rielly
they have a democracy, and they are letting the enemies of democracy shelter themselves behind democratic safeguards.
~ H. Beam Piper
The American constitutional system had been devised to prevent easy capture of the government by popular majorities.
~ James MacGregor Burns
Yes, we need action to deal with online hatred and abuse. But let's make sure there are clear safeguards, or history will repeat itself, and peaceful opponents of an unjust status quo will suffer the consequences.
~ Owen Jones
A hybrid approach led to eBay's success, but it also created tensions. People are willing to trust one another when it comes to user ratings, but in other situations they want the safeguards that are possible only with a command-and-control structure.
~ Ori Brafman
The 'Guardian''s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.
~ Katharine Viner
We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.
~ John Baldacci
History repeatedly demonstrates that all governments that do not have comprehensive internal safeguards and restraints accounting for the inherent "depravity of man" will eventually become selfish, corrupt, oppressive, and then tyrannical.
~ David Barton
Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won't mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.
~ David Brin
Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.
~ Bill Flores
Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.
~ Craig Groeschel