It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.
—Marlo Morgan (1937–98) American Novelist, Author
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
—Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Author, Economist, Politician
No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
—Isaac Newton (1643–1727) English Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer
God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Stability is not immobility.
—Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich (1773–1859) Austrian Diplomat, Statesman
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile
What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
There can be no security where there is fear.
—Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) Austrian-Born American Jurist
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
You sleep safe in your beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do you harm.
—George Orwell (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist
There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
—Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer
Whoever created the name life insurance had to be the sales genius of all time.
—Robert Half
Security isn’t securities. It’s knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.
—Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
—Shirley Hufstedler (1925–2016) American Lawyer, Jurist
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Art Collector, Philanthropist, Businessperson
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
—Tim Ferriss (b.1977) American Self-help Author
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
—Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
I’m in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actress, Dancer, Activist
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
—Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian-American Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.
—George Orwell (1903–50) English Novelist, Journalist
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