Security saw by the History
Quotes that pass the time.
I was playing around with quotations websites. I searched for the term “security” and found interesting results.
This exercise is interesting in the point of view of history; how historical characters saws security in their everyday life. By knowing their history you?ll learn more on their thoughts, at this time, about security.
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Quote that describes the state of security. Knowing that security and safety are not immutable will possibly preserve you from many unsolicited situations:
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
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Overconfidence can lead you to many unsolicited situations:
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)
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Is opportunity creating your security?
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
US WWII general & war hero (1880 – 1964)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
US jurist & politician (1879 – 1972)
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Will you miss things of live if you paranoid with security measures? There is a comfortable zone where it worth it but there is also a gap to not cross.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
US dramatist (1911 – 1983)
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer
Author (1939-today)
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Think about the weakest link. If he is present, the whole chain will break.
There is no security for any of us unless there is security for all
Howard Koch
U.S. screenwriter (1901-1995)
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Is security a brake to progress?
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
James Russell Lowell
American poet, critic, and editor (1819-1891)
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Security over freedom?
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Benjamin Franklin
American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventor. (1706-1790)
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Innovation in insecurity?
It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
American educator (1889-1980)
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Finally for the paranoids.
Security gives way to conspiracy.
William Shakespeare
British dramatist, poet. (1564-1616)