Quotes About Security

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

it suddenly hit him, almost like a blow in the face, how silly it was to be singing about safety and still to be afraid of every whisper in the undergrowth. If he really was safe in Jesus' arms, what was there to be afraid of?

We move to Camp David and we hide. They can't get in there.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military operations are not conducted consistent with political objectives or occur without economic development, they are certain to alienate the population further, reduce the amount of intelligence available to [...] security forces, and strengthen rather than weaken the enemy.

Love. Honesty leads to trust. Trust leads to commitment. Commitment leads to security. Security leads to intimacy. Intimacy leads to love. Love is an expression of God.

While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

The welfare state is the bankruptcy law for workers

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

The Israeli concept that security is its exclusive right somehow generates the U.S.-enforced notion that the Palestinians are obligated to deliver security to the Israelis while Israel delivers death and destruction with impunity to the Palestinians.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Han behøver ikke være bange for indbrud og overfald. Døren er forsvarligt låset. Om den er låset udefra eller indefra kan for så vidt være ligegyldigt.

laughed aloud. "Don't worry, Mr. Moroni. It's as safe as an automobile.

But, darling, you're my world, my life." She kissed me. "And what will you do? You have no job—nothing. How will you live? I can't bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world—anything you want." I remembered something I had read. "What does it profit a man," I quoted, "if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?

We totally misunderstand what it means to be alive when we think of our lives as time we can use in search of rewards and pleasure. Frantically and in growing frustration, we search through our days, our years, looking for the reward, for the success that will make our lives worthwhile, like the security guard looking through the trash in the wheelbarrow for something of value and all the while missing the obvious answer. When you have learned how to live, life itself is the reward.

Money isn't everything, but the lack of money isn't anything.

Birth is as safe as life gets.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Obviously the answer to the threat of communism (or any other enemy) is not a stronger government to defend us but just the opposite. We'd be far safer if there were no government to conquer.