Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

I never think I'm safe. I always live in fear I will lose.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

He that's secure is not safe.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

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 thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

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

People want security in this insecure world.

Anything can be justified by security.

Security is for cadavers.

I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.

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.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

There's so much to be afraid of.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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