Reestablishing Safety Quotes

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~ James Thurber

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net. ~ Steve King

It's proper netiquette to power on your smartphone (mobile) to go through metal detectors. NetworkEtiquette.net ~ David Chiles

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety. ~ John Glenn

Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense ~ Torey L. Hayden

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 ~ Wendy Goerl

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe. ~ Shepard Fairey

Fear is the foundation of safety. ~ Tertullian

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

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. ~ Virgil

We can't save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there's something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn't safety. It's freedom. ~ Martha Beck

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. ~ Herman Kahn

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes. ~ Tina Weymouth

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence. ~ Paul Ryan

No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers. ~ William E. Burrows

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not. ~ Lawrence O'Donnell

But at this moment, for me, family equals safety; Burn equals safety; love equals safety. And if I trust my heart, my instincts, my strength, I know I'll always be safe. ~ Maureen McGowan

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. ~ Tom Stoppard

A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators. ~ Shannon L. Alder

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~ Henry Kravis

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ~ Jeff Cooper

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens. ~ Benito Mussolini

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little. ~ Stephen Levine

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns. ~ Michael D. Barnes

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety. ~ Caroline Myss

There's no more powerful too for safety than communication. ~ Andy Weir

Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it. ~ Marion Nestle

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning. ~ Michael D. Barnes

What good is safety if you're dead inside? ~ Sophie Jordan

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties. ~ Charles Krauthammer

She felt for the first time in her life, a sense of likeness with another human creature, and a sense of safety, not so much physical safety as the safety of understanding that comes between those who are two of a sort. ~ Elizabeth Goudge

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! ~ Donald Wills Douglas

Harbor a healthy suspicion of safety. ~ Foster Kinn

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. ~ Ovid

More important than the words or silence is my inner stance of making room for what is stirring within him, becoming alertly still enough inside that his inner world senses safety, the precursor to him opening into vulnerability. ~ Bonnie Badenoch

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite. ~ Agatha Christie

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge. ~ Chuck Berry

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one ... is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety. ~ Tulip Siddiq

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's samsara. The ~ Pema Chodron

Don't learn safety by accident. ~ Jerry Smith

We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare. ~ Rand Paul

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing. ~ Will Smith

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin. ~ Periander

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened. ~ Laverne Cox

In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting. ~ Charlie Munger

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems. ~ Joe Barton

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while. ~ Georges Danton

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. ~ John Updike

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security. ~ Andy Stanley

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. ~ Bram Stoker

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving. ~ Evgeny Morozov

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me. ~ Dhani Jones

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful. ~ Bill O'Reilly

I realized that no matter how safe a person or place felt, in our world, safety was merely an illusion. ~ Yasmine Galenorn

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat ~ Bell Hooks

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety. ~ Daniel Webster

We are deeply sensitive to one another's presence ~ Bonnie Badenoch

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety. ~ William Shakespeare

There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy. ~ Publilius Syrus

If personal safety means discrimination, then I'm all for it. ~ Janet Parshall

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies. ~ Barbara Cook

If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping. ~ Carl Jung

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars. ~ Thomas Sowell

All this health and safety talk is just killing me. ~ Jeremy Clarkson

The most dangerous place is in your safety zone. ~ Robin Sharma

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither. ~ Benjamin Franklin

We've all done this - created our mix-and-match families, our homemade safety nets. ~ David Levithan

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up. ~ Mira Grant

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. ~ Irene Peter

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. ~ Salman Rushdie

If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected. ~ Greg Proops

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

This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion. ~ Donald Trump

There is safety in numbers. ~ Euripides

Edge also implies what Ben Graham ... called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price that is substantially less than its value. As Graham noted, the margin of safety 'is available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck.' ... Graham expands, "The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price." ~ Michael Mauboussin

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls. ~ James Rozoff

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful. ~ Warren Beatty

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not. ~ Lee Iacocca

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety. ~ Virgil

There is no safety this side of the grave ~ Robert A. Heinlein

God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car. ~ Matt Kenseth

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. ~ Louis Freeh

We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I'm not saying it is wrong to pray for God's protection, but I am questioning how we've made safety our highest priority. We've elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God's best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world. ~ Francis Chan

Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid ~ Jay Leno

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. ~ Josette Sheeran

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~ Alan Hirsch

June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility? ~ Rick Riordan

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe. ~ Philip Massinger

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. ~ Bill Frist