Quotes About Security

She locked the cupboard, took her place in the driver's seat and slipped the pistol into her shoulder bag—if she carried a bag, it would always have enough room to conceal a weapon.

No one who wants a peaceful, safe life needs a weapon. Only soldiers at war need guns, and we are not at war. -The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

The game of music thus resembles the game of power: monopolize the right to violence; provoke anxiety and then provide a feeling of security; provoke disorder and then propose order; create a problem in order to solve it.

five traits: decision, desire, will, closure, and security.

And here Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â Now the orange became Tejas: "In the middle of this mess, Tejas, Spanish to the core, God's bastion, just as in Europe." He patted the orange, reveling in its security, and said: "God arranges these things according to His grand design. Believe me, Trinidad, Tejas is not where it is by accident. And you're not in Tejas by accident. Your destiny is to rear Spanish sons who will build there cities much finer than New Orleans.

if a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere;

A minority with machine guns can always protect itself.

sometimes, it is not about guarding something of value that is important, but rather, being a valuable guard, so that when that thing comes along that needs guarding, there is no question.

Your retirement plan is for shit.

How do you get past this?" Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

If you tell someone that getting a job and a salary might not be the best way to make money, in fact it might be the best way to go broke, this doesn't even compute. The investment bias is too large. "This is my entire life you're talking about!" This

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide. G)

Just being an entrepreneur, without having multiple sources of income, without first taking care of the risks, is suicide.

The life you think you should want,' said Eric, 'is always the life that looks safest.

It is very frightening to belong to somebody.

they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening

That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwise you can't be sure if you're safe.

I wanted children. I wanted to be inside again, with the light and safety, with my manhood unquestioned, watching my woman put my children to bed. I wanted the same bed at night and the same arms and I wanted to rise in the morning, knowing where I was. I wanted a woman to be for me a steady ground, like the earth itself, where I could always be renewed.

thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability

In a dangerous, turbulent world full of threats and disruptions, you need to "protect your flanks"—identify and protect against vulnerabilities that, if exposed or exploited, could kill or cripple you.

Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

Nothing is of more importance to the state than the quality of its spies. It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

The Legacy began: "The duty of a lord of a province is to give peace and security to the people and does not consist of shedding luster on his ancestors or working for the prosperity of his descendants.…" One