Quotes About Safety

It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

We were thirty-five people in one house. The women would sleep in one room and the men in another. When there was shelling, we'd be about three hundred people in the underground shelter.

But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

Silence is safe.

Another illustration of the role of fatigue among clinicians is the lower rate of appropriate handwashing during the end of hospital shifts. (Handwashing turns out to be noisy, too.)

Even in countries that have been targets of intensive terror campaigns, such as Israel, the weekly number of casualties almost never came close to the number of traffic deaths.

traffic deaths.

You could not compute the product of 17 × 24 while making a left turn into dense traffic, and you certainly should not try. You

Et puis s'accuser tous azimuts, on se met à l'abri de bien des exigences. (p.116)

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

When counterterrorism officers feel optimism, innocent people usually end up dead. - Gabriel Allon

But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

I'm afraid life doesn't work that way, Eli." "I suppose not. But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

For better or worse, security was one of the few growth industries in France. Just

the Jews of France are swimming against the tide, moving from the West to the most dangerous and volatile region on the planet. They are doing so for one reason only: they feel safer in Israel than they do in Paris, Toulouse, Marseilles, or Nice. Such is the condition of modern France.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

If anyone tries to grab you, you know what to do?" I rolled my eyes again. "Cut his dick off." "That's right," Grandma said. She pointed at me and tilted her head up to look me in the eye. "If anybody ever puts their hands on you, you cut their pecker right off.

Throughout the eighties, kidnapping was deployed as an empty threat by overworked, exhausted parents who wanted to keep us close enough to elude Child Protective Services but far enough away to not ever have to see, hear, or smell anything we were playing with.

He noticed that the streets didn't feel as safe when there were fewer women on them. So he launched a Night Without Men, where women were encouraged to hit the bars and restaurants and the men were encouraged to stay at home with the kids.

Nunca se prestan cañones a quien puede servirse de ellos para disparar contra nosotros

With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe—even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.

Every protected system created has a vulnerability to outside intervention.