Safety Quotes - Page 19

• Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wiping Out, Knees, Resistance

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• Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Tolerance, Risk, Belief

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2016

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• That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
  the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.

  Peter Drucker

  Government, Hands, Unions

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.333, Transaction Publishers

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• Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

  Ronnie Lott

  Football, People, Challenges

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• Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Army, Two

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Night, Thinking, Order

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Community, Special, Comfort

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• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorant, Execution, Alarms

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• It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

  Publilius Syrus

  Anchors, Two, Aviation

  "Maxims". 119,

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• Obscurity often brings safety.

  Aesop

  Obscurity

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.38, Pelekanos Books

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• The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sleep, Democracy, Liberty

  Wendell Phillips (1902). “Selections from the works of Wendell Phillips”

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• Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, America, Savages

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

  Euripides

  Holding On, Security

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

  James Fallows

  Air, Water, Challenges

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• There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of the limitations of human nature and [find] safety in abasement. I know many things that are unknown to most men, yet I am more ignorant than all others. I rejoice because Christ, 'whom I have believed' (II Tim. 1:12), has bestowed on me an eternal and unshakable kingdom, yet I constantly weep as one who is unworthy of that which is above, and I cease not.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Men, Ignorant

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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, Perfect, Causes

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• Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Coward, Strange

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Decision

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Desperate

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.156, Aegitas

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• Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Women, Storm, Boat

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• Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Imagination, States

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also. . . it undermines personal health and public safety. Regardless of your views on the civil liberties issues. . .another compelling justification for marijuana law reform: that it will promote health and safety for all of us, including our nation's children.

  Nadine Strossen

  Children, Marijuana, Law

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• Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

  Paul Hawken

  Mother, Law, Would Be

  Paul Hawken (2013). “The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Men, Leader, Ordinary

  James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books

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• The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Differences, Needs

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