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Quotes About Security

In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...
~ Lisa Gardner
Slivers of privacy in an arrangement where my younger brother is also living, sleeping, waking right beside me. And maybe I don't mind. I protected my baby brother from our father. I led him from our collapsing house. Even now, I have promised us both a better future.
~ Lisa Gardner
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
~ George Osborne
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~ Thomas Paine
The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.
~ Bruce Schneier
The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.
~ John C. Bogle
An armed society is a polite society.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured
~ Thomas Paine
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.
~ John Adams
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
~ Michelle Singletary
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
~ Thomas Friedman
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
~ Madeleine Albright
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
~ Bob Weir
What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
~ Nat Hentoff
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
~ Eric Schmidt
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
~ William H. Seward
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~ Francis Bacon
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
~ Mark Udall
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
~ Daniel Suarez
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
~ Edward Snowden
Now let us return to light, safety, and society.
~ Caroline Stevermer
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
~ Teresa Nielsen Hayden
An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
~ Juan Cole
All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary
~ Manmohan Singh