Quotes About Security

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

No social stability without individual stability.

So liebesüberströmt, so kussüberfallen wie Mia, Franz und Henri neben Dir aufwachen, können sie keinen Schaden nehmen. Das ist nicht möglich. Wenn doch, nur den üblichen kleinen Schaden. Den alle Menschen nehmen.

Love takes captive and puts the apprehended in custody; it makes an arrest, for the prisoner's protection.

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.

Each extra lock on the entry door in response to successive rumours of foreign-looking criminals in cloaks full of daggers and each next revision of the diet in response to a successive 'food panic' makes the world look more treacherous and fearsome, and prompts more defensive actions – that will, alas, add more vigour to the self-propagating capacity of fear.

Flexibility' is the slogan of the day, and when applied to the labour market it augurs an end to the 'job as we know it', announcing instead the advent of work on short-term contracts, rolling contracts or no contracts, positions with no in-built security but with the 'until further notice' clause.

El amor hace prisionero y pone en custodia al cautivo: arresta para proteger al propio prisionero.

Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

One cannot seek happiness, for it is the result of realizing the Truth. The personality, which has security and pleasure as its aims, cannot be happy. Pursuing pleasure or safety will entail covering up any unpleasant or frightening truths. This automatically closes Joy. For Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.

When we know what we want, and see that our desires authentically reflect who and what we are, our self-esteem improves, and we find ourselves enjoying truly human interactions. The more effortlessly secure we are in being ourselves, the more we can afford to open up to others, and the more we can naturally act with generosity and magnanimity.

And now, I believe, protocol insists that we open a bottle or a dozen of wine and make some preliminary discussion of security, introduction protocols, and so on. Fortunately about the wine, and regrettably about everything else, you are correct.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.

Brock Millman, a careful scholar of Britain's internal security measures, makes a convincing case that the government held back men and arms for fear of revolution at home.

International intervention in the country is like asking security guards to patrol a bank in mid-robbery. The guards may end up robbing or running the bank, whether

The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration. To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls specificity, the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

Those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as the most despotical.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all