Safety Quotes - Page 24

• I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

  William Shakespeare

  Enmity, World, Speak

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revolution, Censorship, Bursting

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Wish, Occupation

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• The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

  George Herbert

  Sheep

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Remembrance, Trouble

  "Andromeda". Play by Euripides, 412 BCE.

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• From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

  Joel Salatin

  Police, Wipe, Faces

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Civilization, Needs

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• Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

  Ralph Nader

  Betrayal, Responsibility, Company

  "Flaming Fords" by Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2006.

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

  Salman Rushdie

  Effort, Trying, Too Much

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Order, Insecurity, World

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Religious, Believe, Order

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Sick

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Rejection, Retreat, Subordination

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Children, Lying, Men

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• I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.

  Barbara Lee

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview with Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane.

  Amy Poehler

  Mean, Drunk, Trying

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• I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Rights, People

  "Balancing freedom and security - a modern British Bill of Rights". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2006.

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• But we agree with the NTSB that if we eliminated the thrust- reverser calculation, it would be an extra margin of safety. Airport capacity and airline efficiency are important, but safety is the most important thing.

  Laura Brown

  Airports, Important, Would Be

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• The lesson from Hurricane Katrina was communication, communication, communication, .. Public safety has to be a priority. Then we can go to constituents and start talking about investments that have to be made in upgrading the networks.

  Mufi Hannemann

  Communication, Talking, Priorities

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• Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

  David Shore

  Noise, Runway, Justification

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• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

  Peter Wolf

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

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• Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Independent, Army, Nations

  Proclamation to the French People, June 22, 1815.

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Effort

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• Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Issues, Conservative

  Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

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• I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

  Henry L. Benning

  War, Thinking, Unions

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