Quotes About Security

If American business is going to prevail, and be competitive, we're going to have to get accustomed to the idea that business conditions change, and that survivors have to adapt to those changing conditions. Business is a competitive endeavor, and job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

fact, two-thirds of all of the refugees who had come to the US in the previous decade were women and children—and we knew who they were. Of the millions of refugees admitted to the United States since the landmark Refugee Act of 1980, not one has carried out a lethal act of domestic terrorism.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God; that they are not to be violated but with His wrath? – THOMAS JEFFERSON

There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness now should provide small comfort. ...what will they not in the end become?

Above and beyond their primal concern with security, different states define their interests in different ways.

For the present, can Taiwan remain democratic without becoming formally independent? In the future could Taiwan be democratic without remaining actually independent?

the situation between Ukraine and Russia is ripe for the outbreak of security competition between them. Great powers that share a long and unprotected common border, like that between Russia and Ukraine, often lapse into competition driven by security fears. Russia and Ukraine might overcome this dynamic and learn to live together in harmony, but it would be unusual if they do."16

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

A locked door makes you feel secure until the surrounding house is blown down.

Give children a clock to live by," Mrs. Lee said. "So they know what's coming, when it's coming, how long it will last. They'll take comfort in that knowing.

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.

An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

She must be rich who can forego An hour so jewelled with delight, She must have teasuries of joy That she can draw on day and night, She must be very sure of heaven– Or is it only that she feels How much more safe it is to lack A thing that time so often steals.

Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Forget diamonds or dogs- a girls or boys best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

The various governments of various worlds, no matter how different, all agreed on one thing: people should not be able to disappear from the radar and stop being traced. Because that denied government's ability to identify troublemakers and rebels, criminals and those who simply wanted to be left alone. And that would not be permitted.

It takes me less than a minute to pick a pin-tumbler lock, but in that minute, anyone could wander into the hallway and say, "Sky, are you picking the lock on your mother's office?" Dad. I swear I have the nosiest family of all time. First Charles, now Dad. Couldn't anyone just mind their own business while I skulked around suspiciously?

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.