Quotes About Security

Thomas Hobbes saw things in the 1640s, as the English Civil War was raging, when he argued that people should "submit their Wills" to an all-powerful state, a Leviathan, which would then provide security and prosperity.

If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meal. Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner toll you could kill a musk ox with.

Did you see those airport security people? I think you could drive a tank past them, as long as it didn't contain any liquids.

The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding? Though some citizens and commentators objected on grounds of privacy, asserting that government, at virtually every level, had always needed to do some things in private for the sake of security and efficiency, the momentum crushed all such arguments and the progression continued. If you weren't operating in the light of day, what were you doing in the shadows?

PRIVACY IS THEFT

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Like I don't know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I'm alive. Maybe that's what's missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon.

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

La vigilancia no puede ser el precio a pagar por ningún maldito servicio que recibamos.

Every fucking suburb has a SWAT team.

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

Nothing in the world sounds worst than that, to be here and safe.

And I'll be safe? -To what end? -To keep living. -That's my point. That's not enough.

The first two ultimate rules of being a foster child that I had learned while at Aunt Mary's were never to become too attached to anyone and never to take someone's home for granted.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.

Let's secure the border, figure out who is here illegally, and offer them a pathway to citizenship. Likewise, let's take in new immigrants in numbers that will help our economy, rather than make them reliant on the citizens who are already here.

When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

How could we know that the Russian military kept testing and developing new systems? With Yeltsin in charge, the military didn't seem to matter very much.

If it keeps the streets safe, people will accept it.

There is no denying the lesson these numbers teach us. The future is going to be expensive.

three baskets into which you should put your eggs. I call them the security basket, the retirement basket, and the dream basket.

When you pay yourself first, what you're really doing is putting yourself first.

AARP goes on to say that 75 percent of Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 have less than $30,000 in savings. Seriously, reread that statement.

National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph over political gamesmanship. - Kelly Paul