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“An age that needs security guards is, of course, without security. What do we have in the dull old days? Old man janitors in the schools; watchmen in the factories, and the watchman was usually the...”
“Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
“Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.”
“God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.”
“The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”
“If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.”
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.”
“Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.”
“There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.”
“We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.”
“"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.”
“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.”
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.”
“Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.”
“I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.”
“Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.”
“Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.”
“To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.”
“Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.”
“We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.”
