Security Quotes
3136 quotes by 1874 authors
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Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.
— Joyce Meyer
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The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
— Larry Niven
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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
— Tom Robbins
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the…
— Confucius
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.
— Paul Bowles
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that…
— Tom Stoppard
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There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are…
— Molly Ivins
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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
— Voltaire
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The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times…
— James Madison
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the…
— Adam Smith
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Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let…
— George W. Bush
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I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he…
— Jon Krakauer
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only…
— Thomas Szasz
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Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have…
— Harry S. Truman
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Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
— Samuel Johnson
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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
— Henry Miller
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Here in my heart, my happiness, my house. Here inside the lighted window is my love, my hope, my life. Peace is my companion on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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