Security Quotes

“The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it. Being at war, however, always has been.”
― Joseph Heller, God Knows

“We can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve. Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity. We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams. We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Where do you think your family’s misery comes from, Zetian? Don’t you think they’d become different people if you could get them out of this place and give them all the food and security they’ve lacked in their lives?- Xiuying”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“When you feel secure, you can be the best version of yourself. Insecurity brings out the worst version of you.”
― Shunya

“And as she grieved, she realized that she had never trusted the world to keep herself or those she loved safe. From the moment of her mother’s death, she had known that terror could be around the next corner at any moment. Had there ever been a time when she felt the clutch of fear in her gut loosen its grip, so that she could have faith in the future?”
― Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear

“Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense? Speed, some poison in the leaf, the tongue, the tail? A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions. A thorn here, a spike there.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Be careful, get comfortable, don't make any waves,' whispers the DNA. Conversely, the yearning for freedom, the risky belief that there is nothing to lose and nothing to gain, is also in our DNA. But it's of much more recent evolutionary origin ... It has arisen during the paste couple of million years, during the rapid increase in brain size and intellectual capacity associated with our becoming human. But the desire for security, the will to survive, is of much greater antiquity. For the present, the conflicting yearnings in the DNA generate a basic paradox that in turn generates the character – nothing if not contradictory – of man. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox? But, since the genetic bent for freedom is comparatively recent, it may represent an evolutionary trend. We may yet outgrow our overriding obsession to survive. That's why I encourage everyone to take chances, to court danger, to welcome anxiety, to flaunt insecurity, to rock every boat and always cut against the grain. By pushing it, goosing it along whenever possible, we may speed up the process, the process by which the need for playfulness and liberty becomes stronger than the need for comfort and security. Then the paradox ... holding the show together may lose its equilibrium.”
― Tom Robbins

“You do not seriously think that a corrupt government that is under the control of toxic corporations is going to uphold your legal rights to Disability and Workers Compensation payments, do you?”
― Steven Magee

“There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents,”
― Vikram sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“If such a destination has indeed been chosen for us, it is obvious that ecology's rational deities will be powerless against the throwing of technology and energy into the struggle for an unpredictable goal, in a sort of Great Game whose rules are unknown to us. Even now we have no protection against the perverse effects of security, control and crime-prevention measures. We already know to what dangerous extremities we are led by prophylaxis in every sphere: social, medical, economic or political. In the name of the highest possible degree of security, an endemic terror may well be instituted that is in every way as dangerous as the epidemic threat of catastrophe. One thing is certain: in view of the complexity of the initial conditions and the potential reversibility of all the effects, we should entertain no illusions about the effectiveness of any kind of rational intervention. In the face of a process which so far surpasses the individual or collective will of the players, we have no choice but to accept that any distinction between good and evil (and by extension here any possibility of assessing the 'right level' of technological development) can have the slightest validity only within the tiny marginal sphere contributed by our rational model. Inside these bounds, ethical reflection and practical determinations are feasible; beyond them, at the level of the overall process which we have ourselves set in motion, but which from now on marches on independently of us with the ineluctability of a natural catastrophe, there reigns - for better or worse - the inseparability of good and evil, and hence the impossibility of mobilizing the one without the other. This is, properly speaking, the theorem of the accursed share. There is no point whatsoever in wondering whether things ought to be thus: they simply are thus, and to fail to acknowledge it is to fall utterly prey to illusion. None of this invalidates whatever may be possible in the ethical, ecological or economic sphere of our life - but it does totally relativize the impact of such efforts upon the symbolic level, which is the level of destiny.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Clusters of items in the scale point to the following tendencies associated with social responsibility: greater concern for social and moral issues; disapproval of privilege and favor; emphasis on duties and self-discipline; greater conventionality; less rebelliousness; greater sense of trust and confidence in the world; greater poise, assurance, and personal security.”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and complexity to a mere snapshot, which more often than not has catered to an orientalist audience that regards Arab or Muslim cultures as backward and to security-focused policymakers. Over time those two groups have worked to reinforce each other, merging to such an extent that everything was viewed through the prism of the security of the West, especially after 9/11.”
― Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

“Liars only come into your life when they want money or something from you personally or basically something of a monetary value. Remember to recognize it and don't give them anything and ignore them. They'll eventually leave and seek gain from someone else.”
― Major Mike Russell

“You cannot borrow security. You must invest in yourself. It is through this investment that you develop resilience. Each failure creates an opportunity for “bouncing back,’ thus strengthening your soul’s elasticity.”
― Molly M. Cantrell-Kraig, Circuit Train Your Brain: Daily Habits That Develop Resilience

“If the state security services can track down people that criticize President Buhari, why are they not locating the kidnappers taking people for ransom? We should make use of DSS strength in tracking what is needed to be tracked.”
― Olawale Daniel

“There is surety, security and trust and even awe in uniform.”
― Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans

“I am not big enough to be my own refuge, but my ego thinks itself big enough to be a refuge from that reality.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Security later, first let us be civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Security, comfort, luxury, all these are the aim of the coward, whereas, the civilized being of character aims for self-correction, integrity and collective growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Our true security and significance are contingent upon God. As we grow spiritually His value system becomes ours.”
― DeBorrah K. Ogans, Proverbs Daily Devotional Goldmine Of Spiritual Wisdom

“I come from the place where the words get stuck. My brother comes from the hiding spots in his closet. We were maybe born like the rest of you. Born to a woman who gave us things like red rubber balls and pink dresses. But we come from the hidden corners. The dark spots in the lungs or closets where secrets get lodged, the kind of secrets that takes years to wiggle loose. We come from places where things get stuck and hidden and lost. But person, and people, love us anyway.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time

“Where do human rights arise, anyway? In the sun, in the moon, in the daily paper, in the conscientious heart? They arise in responsible government. Where does security lie, anyway--security against the thief, the murderer, the footpad? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government. Where does control lie--control of smoking in the theater, of nuclear energy in the planet? Control lies in government, because government is people.”
― E.B. White, The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“They were great parents, and I saw them as often as I could, which is to say holidays and an occasional weekend. A typical twenty-something, I enjoyed my independence. But my parents were there when I needed them, always there. The idea that I would someday have to walk this earth without their anchor and misguided guidance made me wince, to say nothing of losing both of them at only eighteen.

I was glad Simon seemed to have good friends and such a powerful advocate as Benjamin watching out for him. But as close as friends and lovers could be, there was something about belonging to someone completely that gave you roots—roots you sometimes needed when the world battled against you.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“I am just one of the many Americans that has been blatantly denied their Disability and Workers Compensation benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“I would never have realized how crooked the USA government was had I not gone through the OSHA, Disability and Workers Compensation systems.”
― Steven Magee

“The safest assumptions that workers can make in the USA is that they do not have the right to a safe workplace and they will not get Disability and Workers Compensation for occupational diseases if they become too sick to work.”
― Steven Magee

“Monarchs, autocratic rulers and democracies have used informers and agents provocateurs for the security of their realms, to wage war and for their own protection against assassins.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“Intelligence is not a science, certainly not a natural science. It is an art or a craft, and as such it cannot be governed by the basic tenets of logic.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“Basic purpose of advance or current secret intelligence is to ensure that the government faces no surprises and the information gathered helps it make informed decisions or take counter-action.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage