Safe Quotes - Page 6

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Your secret is safe with me, Kal-El

When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard don't see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

No family is safe when I sashay.

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.