Safety Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

  Gifford Pinchot

  World, Welfare, Efficiency

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Organization

  "11 TED Talks that will make you smarter about business" by Shana Lebowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2016.

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• The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Glasses, Cake

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• I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

  Bear Grylls

  Chiefs, Policy, Health And Safety

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Wise, Reading, Successful

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• The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep
  in safety.

  Samuel de Champlain

  Sleep, Giving, Advice

  Samuel de Champlain, Henry Percival Biggar, Hugh Hornby Langton, William Francis Ganong, John Home Cameron (1936). “The works of Samuel de Champlain ...”

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• Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Use, Beast

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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• National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

  Barack Obama

  Illinois, Law, Weapons

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• From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"

  Ann M. Dibb

  Father, Iron, Goal

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