Security Quotes - Page 22

• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Trends, Small Parts

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Worry, Dangerous, Shows

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• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Obsession, Granted

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, People

  "Novelist Khaled Hosseini". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

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• The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

  Shelley Berman

  Problems Love, Etc, Love Of Money

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• I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.

  Mark Steyn

  Thinking, Example, Dollars

  "Mark Steyn: RomneyCare Was A 'Technocratic Solution'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Giving, Events

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• With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, His Love, Parameters

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• Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  Earl Nightingale

  Wise, Opportunity, Risk

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com

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• Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Struggle, Safety, Perfect

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• Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Safety, Chance

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

  Winona LaDuke

  Daughter, Mother, Women

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• Too much concern about physical security and too little concern about spirituality is the hallmark of today's world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Today's World, Littles

  Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “From Amma's Heart”, p.168, M A Center

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• Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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• If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

  John Major

  Sports, Art, Government

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• Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.

  Phil Gramm

  Home, Thinking, Oil

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• Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

  James Buchan

  Class, Devil, Today

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

  Janet Fitch

  Wish, Oleanders, Broke

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• Stability is not immobility.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Stability

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• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Threat, Enjoyed

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