Quotes about Security
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
— Albert Camus
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
— Alexander Hamilton
But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.
— Alexander Hamilton
The excellence of the trial by jury in civil cases appears to depend on circumstances foreign to the preservation of liberty. The strongest argument in its favor is, that it is a security against corruption. As there is always more time and better opportunity to tamper with a standing body of magistrates than with a jury summoned for the occasion, there is room to suppose that a corrupt influence would more easily find its way to the former than to the latter.
— Alexander Hamilton
My BlackBerry is essential to my survival.
— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
— Barack Obama
If we know our original blessing, we can easily handle our original sin. If we rest in a previous dignity, we can bear insults effortlessly. If you really know your name is on some eternal list, you can let go of the irritations on the small lists of time. Ultimate security allows you to suffer small insecurity without tremendous effort. If you are tethered at some center point, it is amazing how far out you can fly and not get lost.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I cannot think of a culture in human history, before the present postmodern era, that did not value law, tradition, custom, authority, boundaries, and morality of some clear sort. These containers give us the necessary security, continuity, predictability, impulse control, and ego structure that we need, before the chaos of real life shows up.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Whatever you trust to validate you and secure you is your real god, and the Gospel is saying, "Will the real God please stand up?
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We must discover a source of inner security before we can withstand the insecurities that every life holds. Children are not ready for this, nor are teenagers, nor are young adults. Honest soul work is usually done in the second half of life, although it is forced on some much earlier through imprisonment or family tragedy.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
— Rick Warren