Garry Kasparov Quotes

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

Yes, I've received death threats.

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

In the age of terror, there is less room for error.

Anything can be justified by security.

Imagine Earth as a crime-ridden town, and there is one safe house. How do you keep that safe house, America, always safe? It is called vigilance.

I never think that walls can protect you.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It doesn't matter what you have if you can't protect it.

Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.