Quotes About Security

Big data is watching you

So while present-day terrorism is mostly theater, future nuclear terrorism, cyberterrorism, or bioterrorism would pose a much more serious threat and would demand a far more drastic reaction from governments.

Hammurabi's Code was based on the premise that if the king's subjects all accepted their positions in the hierarchy and acted accordingly, the empire's million inhabitants would be able to cooperate effectively. Their society could then produce enough food for its members, distribute it efficiently, protect itself against its enemies, and expand its territory so as to acquire more wealth and better security.

You want to argue that they in fact improved the conditions of their subjects with new medicines, better economic conditions and greater security? You could fill another encyclopedia with their achievements.

The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved the future economic security they so craved through their hard work in the present. Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants' surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence. These

In most cases, this overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves.

Never before has peace been so prevalent that people could not even imagine war.

If I don't update my body's anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots coursing through my veins are now controlled by a North Korean hacker.

After all, what we ultimately ought to protect is humans – not jobs.

granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.

The most important economic resource is trust in the future, and this resource is constantly threatened by thieves and charlatans.

In the big battle between health and privacy, health is likely to win hands down.

Terrorism is both a global political problem and an internal psychological mechanism.

No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.

The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.

We will have each other and we can be safe and warm.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.

With my past forgiven, my present secure, and my future irrevocably guaranteed, why shouldn't I be enthusiastically optimistic?