Haider al-Abadi Quotes

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

I think I need security.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

Fear attracts attack.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

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.

All are / naked, none is safe.

When are you at your most defenseless?

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

He that's secure is not safe.

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

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

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

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

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

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

People want security in this insecure world.

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

There is no safety where there is no strength.

Anything can be justified by security.

Security is for cadavers.

Neither King nor anyone else is to be furnished protection.