Quotes About Security

We can't cut down rainforests forever. And anything that we can't do forever is by definition, unsustainable. If we do things that are unsustainable, the damage accumulates, ultimately, to a point where the whole system collapses. No ecosystem, not matter how big, is secure. Even one as vast as the ocean.

It's neither safe nor practical to assume that man in your life can be counted on to take care of your finances.

Don't ever put your entire financial fate in someone else's hands.

Social security was never intended to be a retirement plan. At most, it was designed to provide an income supplement.

keep your nest egg growing faster than inflation isn't all that hard.

It's not what you know about money—it's what you don't know that can wipe you out.

I said earlier that being white was not just about skin color, but about security. That's what white privilege represents. White really means: safe.

President Kennedy was trying to organize the hemisphere to support his terrorist attacks against Cuba, which were very severe. ... the Mexican Ambassador said, "If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing.

The most dangerous enemy to Israels security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

The life you think you should want ... is always the life that looks safest.

Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.

In 1931 there were three crimes a year for every police officer. In 2001 there were 44.

In the long run, people have more to fear from governments than from terrorists. Terrorists come and go, but power-hungry politicians will always be with us.

The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.

It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.

Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans.

The Patriot Act treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.

Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.

To trust someone is to believe that he or she has your best interests in mind, that the person will protect you from harm and is reliable.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

for God raised Jesus from the dead for the sake of shepherds and children and poor folks and all of us who worry a lot about security but can never finally make ourselves safe.