| "security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. security is the denial of life." »Germaine Greer |
| "A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future." »Henry M. Wriston |
| "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 |
| "There's no such thing as security. There never has been." »Germaine Greer |
| "security is a kind of death." »Tennessee Williams |
| "There is no security on earth there is only opportunity." »Douglas MacArthur |
| "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." »General Douglas MacArthur |
| "No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person." »Willa Cather |
| "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." »John F. Kennedy |
| "The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." »Edmund Burke |
| "security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." »Helen Keller |
| "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." »James F. Byrnes |
| "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." »Lord Acton |
| "Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary." »Margaret Cho |
| "When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as important to one as one's own, then a state of love exists." »Harry Stack Sullivan |
| "There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion." »Demosthenes |
| "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." »U. S. Constitution |
| "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." »Epicurus |
| "My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia." »Dame Edna Everage |
| "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others" »William Hazlitt |
| "The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." »Henry Ford |
| "Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." »Helen Keller |
| "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 |
| "Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire |
| "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens." »Menachem Begin |
| "Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
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