Security Quotes

You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm.possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942

George Orwell, (attributed)

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.

George Eliot

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Germaine Greer

Shun security.

Thales of Miletos

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Ronald Reagan

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

Ronald Reagan

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

Jodi Picoult

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

Harry Browne

What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.

Bruce Schneier

Stability is not immobility.

Klemens Von Metternich

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

David Mamet

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Sir Winston Churchill

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.

Anthony Robbins

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

Helen Keller

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.

B. E. Hutchinson