These security quotes will inspire you. Security, the state of being protected or safe from harm or the state of being free from danger or threat.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging security quotes, security sayings, and security proverbs.
Best Security Quotes
- “If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
- “Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.” ~ Norman Thomas
- “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security” ~ John Allen Paulos
- “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
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“Only the insecure strive for security.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world’s peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.” ~ Bruce Schneier
- “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.” ~ Richard A. Clarke
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“The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.” ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
- “The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.” ~ Emma Goldman
- “We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.” ~ William Cowper
- “Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.” ~ Bill Gates
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“Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.” ~ Germaine Greer
- “I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.” ~ Princess Diana
- “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
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“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn’t enough. I was exploding inside.” ~ Ingrid Bergman
- “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “It ain’t what you
don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” ~ Mark Twain
- “…let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “Security is a kind of death.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
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“While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” ~ Ann Coulter
- “I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” ~ J. Paul Getty
- “I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” ~ Stephen Hawking
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“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.” ~ John Maynard Keynes
- “Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.” ~ James Madison
- “Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.” ~ Adam Smith
- “There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children’s suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.” ~ Landon Pearson
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“He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “…let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it.” ~ Kofi Annan , Human security quotes
- “If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only generate monsters: bitterness, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the damaging denial of current hegemonies.The poor must be given reasons to live, not to kill or die.” ~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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“Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world’s peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.” ~ Bruce Schneier
- “If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.” ~ Bruce Schneier
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“Living based in security is living based in fear.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.” ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland , National security quotes
- “There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.” ~ Irene Khan
- “When you inhabit any of these three roles, you’re reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You’re always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.” ~ David Emerald Womeldorff
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“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” ~ Gail Sheehy
- “Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.” ~ Rosalie Bertell
- “If the militarily most powerful and least threatened states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.” ~ Joseph Rotblat
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“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because they represent a threat to the security of the human race. These incredibly destructive weapons are an affront to our common humanity, and the tens of billions of dollars that are dedicated to their development and maintenance should be used instead to alleviate human need and suffering” ~ Oscar Arias
- “No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Extending social and economic development throughout the world and eliminating nuclear weapons from military arsenals are two fundamental prerequisites to replacing the culture of war with a culture of peace, and building true security for all the world’s people.” ~ Douglas Roche
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“A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “We demand a non-violent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. People have the right to live in a world where the basic needs of all peoples are addressed. No more military attacks. No more war.” ~ Shirin Ebadi
- “In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.” ~ Mahbub ul Haq
- “There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.” ~ Dennis Weaver
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“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.” ~ Willa Cather
- “Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.” ~ William Allen White
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“We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we’re willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.” ~ William Cohen
- “Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.” ~ John Cudahy
- “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
