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Quotes About Safety

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.
~ John Adams
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
~ James Madison
There are two crucial values without which human life is simply inconceivable. One is security, a measure of security, feeling safe. The other is freedom, ability to self-assert, to do what you really would like to do and so on. They are both necessary. Security without freedom is slavery. Freedom without security is complete chaos where you are lost, abandoned, you don't know what to do.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarrassing way to die.
~ Aaron Allston
Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.
~ Aaron Cometbus
She thinks hockey and football are very dangerous.
~ Abby Klein
Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe
~ Abraham Lincoln
More than 700 million artillery and mortar rounds were fired on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, of which an estimated 15 percent failed to explode. Every year these leftover shells kill people—36 in 1991 alone, for instance, when France excavated the track bed for a new high-speed rail line.
~ Adam Hochschild
The French government employs teams of démineurs, roving bomb-disposal specialists, who respond to calls when villagers discover shells; they collect and destroy 900 tons of unexploded munitions each year. More than 630 French démineurs have died in the line of duty since 1946. Like those shells, the First World War itself has remained in our lives, below the surface, because we live in a world that was so much formed by it and by the industrialized total warfare it inaugurated.
~ Adam Hochschild
When I get Kylie back, I'm not letting her walk anywhere by herself until she's fifty," Rachel mutters, knowing this is a pitiful horse/ barn-door statement.
~ Adrian McKinty
I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping to promote, to the best of our ability, informed consent, human protection, and safety in medical and research settings.
~ Adriana Petryna
I have decided that love is only real and true when it makes you feel safe.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.
~ Aeschylus
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~ Aesop
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
~ Alain de Botton
Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins.
~ Alan Dean Foster
True relaxation was a state of being that had been virtually unknown to him since childhood. The best that could be said of it was that when he felt relatively safe, he entered a condition of lenient wariness.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Do you understand how I have loved you? You'd have all been dead in a year or two from liver failure, men, or childbirth. Dead. Forgotten. I have saved you. Do you understand that? I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity.
~ Alan Moore
Drive very slowly. Especially round corners. And along straight roads." "Can you please trust me?" "I trust you with my life," Skulduggery said. "Just not necessarily my car.
~ Derek Landy
Some people might think I could play Russian Roulette safely with a blank bullet. Our armourer took us outside to demonstrate the damage a blank causes at close range.
~ Derren Victor Brown