Security Quotes - Page 25

• Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Adventure, May

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• The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

  Judith Rodin

  Keys, Empowering, Economic

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• Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

  Jack Gilbert

  Jobs, Moving, Pride

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• Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

  Widad Akrawi

  Loss, Rights, Ecosystems

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• No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

  Humanity, Triumph, World

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• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

  Gerry Spence

  Rights, Tyrants, Promise

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

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• Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Pain, Character, Joy

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• Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand in times of need to those who willingly sacrifice each day to provide that freedom and security. While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

  Gary Sinise

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Hands

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• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Long, Reform

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Lying, Long Ago, Civilization

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• What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, People, What If

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

  Steve Israel

  Impact, People, Reform

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• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Truth, Issues, People

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• The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

  Aldrich Ames

  Weapons, Junk, Defeated

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• I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.

  John S. Pistole

  People, Safety, Balance

  John S. Pistole at Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

  Paul Kagame

  Great Day, One Day, Steps

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• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.

  Mark Dayton

  Administration, Serious, Madness

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• Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

  Aesop

  Fear, Poverty, Midst

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.28, First Avenue Editions

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• The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

  Tom Burke

  Stress, People, Water

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• You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Security And Freedom, Decision

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• The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Children, Acceptance, Opportunity

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• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Men, Order

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Bears, Doe

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