Quotes About Vigilance

Percy felt for his complaisant friend something of the annoyance which a householder feels for the watchdog whom he finds fraternizing with the burglar.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

There's no getting away from the fact that, if ever a man required watching, it's Steggles. Machiavelli could have taken his correspondence course.

moment blighted Harold discovered that training meant knocking off pastry, taking exercise, and keeping away from the cigarettes, he was all against it, and it was only by unceasing vigilance that we managed to keep him in any shape at all.

There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the thing has gripped him.

in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness," but baptism of the body, unless followed by baptism of the mind, becomes practically meaningless. If we bathe and thus purify our bodies, we will find that our mind will temporarily become purified, but unless we change our soul's wickedness by calmness, and meditation, and constant spiritual vigilance, we will remain the same old devils with bad habits in spite of the temporary purifying effect of the water on our bodies.

beware the law behind closed doors, the yellow-toothed men behind silver badges who had been betrayed by their chromosomes and their birth. She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun. Beware

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Siapa yang akan mengawasi sang pengawas?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Kto bude strážiÃ…Â¥ strážcov?

permanent state of high alert.

To demolish this basilica, the king said, is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves to move happily forward, telling ourselves that another 'Franco' could never happen. But of course it could happen, and it will happen if we are not vigilant. - Father of Prince Julian

Quis custodier ipsos custodes?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

To demolish this basilica," the king said, "is to pretend our history never happened—an easy way to allow ourselves to move happily forward, telling ourselves that another 'Franco' could never happen. But of course it could happen, and it will happen if we are not vigilant. You may recall the words of our countryman Jorge Santayana—" " 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

i don't get it, who will guard the guards ?? -Yeah if we are the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous ?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' Susan looked puzzled. 'It's Latin,' Hale said. 'From Satires of Juvenal. It means "Who will guard the guards?

Los que luchan contra monstruos deben cuidarse de no acabar convertidos en uno de ellos".

Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.

All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man's foot which I had seen; for as yet I never saw any human creature come near the island, and I had now lived two years under these uneasinesses, which indeed made my life much less comfortable than it was before;

Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real.