Safety Quotes

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Don't learn safety by accident.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

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

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

The wronged side is always the safest.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

It takes leadership to improve safety.

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

Let's put the safety and security of the American people first.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

President George W. Bush is endangering the United States and the world's safety while undermining American values.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

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.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

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.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.