Safety Quotes - Page 33

• REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revolution, Censorship, Bursting

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• Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Wish, Occupation

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• The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

  George Herbert

  Sheep

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Remembrance, Trouble

  "Andromeda". Play by Euripides, 412 BCE.

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• 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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• I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Film, Environment

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• All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

  Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

  Practice, Trying, Belief

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• The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

  Billy Sunday

  Devil, Safe, Lord

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• And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

  Roger Wicker

  Government, People, Clock

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• You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Jobs, Focus, Needs

  "Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

  Robert Maxwell

  Would Be, Safe, England

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• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  Garry Shandling

  Sex, Practice, Use

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• I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

  Robert Kirkman

  Book, Writing, Three

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• Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Feelings, World, Influence

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• We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

  Jena Malone

  Foundation, Form, Feels

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• If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Sex, Use

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• The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

  Ann Veneman

  Strong, Thinking, America

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• I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

  Ann Veneman

  Thinking, Brain, Important

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• We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Attention, Paramount

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.

  Margaret Spellings

  Workplace, Workplace Safety, Knows

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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