Security Quotes
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"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."
-Edmund Burke
-Edmund Burke
"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 possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
-Confucius
-Confucius
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
-Helen Keller
-Helen Keller
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
-Lord Acton
-Lord Acton
"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
-Harold W. Dodds
-Harold W. Dodds
"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks."
-Shirley Hufsteddler
-Shirley Hufsteddler
"Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back."
-Shelly Winters
-Shelly Winters
"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity."
-Lois McMaster Bujold
-Lois McMaster Bujold
"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."
-Margaret Cho
-Margaret Cho
"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."
-Germaine Greer
-Germaine Greer
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths."
-James Madison
-James Madison
"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life."
-Germaine Greer
-Germaine Greer
"Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty."
-George W. Bush
-George W. Bush
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
-George W. Bush
-George W. Bush
"What I said was in fact, we are ready as the new Iraqi interim government to resume our responsibilities, especially now that we have a new U.N. Security Council resolution."
-Hoshiyar Zebari
-Hoshiyar Zebari
"You can't enjoy freedoms, you can't think about the quality of life of your citizens, you can't think of a future for your citizens or jobs or economic prosperity, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, if you can't provide a level of security for the country itself."
-Martha Rainville
-Martha Rainville
"While I was out I did the right thing, by being in the public and being noticed, but I loved to get home and have my little security."
-Betty Cuthbert
-Betty Cuthbert
"The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security."
-Bertrand Russell
-Bertrand Russell
"You can find WS-Security in all SOA products, but almost no one's using it. It's amazing how few people are using it."
-Anne Thomas Manes
-Anne Thomas Manes
"Effective today, all checkpoints at entry points towards NCR will be pulled out due to the improved security situation."
-Captain Ramon Zagala
-Captain Ramon Zagala
