Safety Quotes - Page 9

• Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

  Laozi

  Humility, Political, Heaven

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• I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Work, Health

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• The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Science, Earth

  The Space Shuttle "Columbia" Tragedy Speech to the Nation, delivered 1 February 2003, White House Cabinet Room

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• This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Crush, War, Believe

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Problem, Danger

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• The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Aerospace, People

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• A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Adventure, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1975). “Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, Risk

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.34

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• Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

  Mike Lee

  America, Goal, Special

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

  Xavier Becerra

  Children, Home, School

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• Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

  Ben Hecht

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

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• Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

  David A. Morse

  Justice, Motto, Social

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• Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

  Sadako Ogata

  Determination, War, Mean

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Color, Law

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• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Real, Technology

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• One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

  Erich Warsitz

  Airplane, Electric Motors, Feelings

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• Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And even if you do: essays on man, manners & machines”

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Trying, Duty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

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• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Light, Imagination

  Sir Walter Scott (1880*). “Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate”

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• We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

  Deborah Hersman

  Airplane, People, Waiting

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• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, War, Emotional

  "You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living".

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• I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress -- which represents our people. All of you live in safety from domestic enemies because of security from the police. Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us.

  Hyman Rickover

  Country, Regret, Military

  "Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life". Second Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 1982.

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Acquaintance, Pleasant

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Pain, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.42, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Future, Parent

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2909, Best Books on

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