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Quotes About Security

Destruction makes people go away so, if you hide inside destruction, you're safe
~ Emma Abdullah
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.
~ Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.
~ Bernard Baruch
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
~ Joseph Rotblat
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
~ Chung Mong-joon
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.
~ Noah Feldman
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
~ Sam Kinison
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
~ Al-Ghazali
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
~ Al-Ghazali
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
~ Saadi
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
~ Juvenal
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
~ Harold Laski
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
~ George Washington
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
~ Harold Laski
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
~ Brian Tracy
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~ Jenny Shipley
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~ Johan Huizinga
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
~ Margaret Feinberg