Germaine Greer Quotes

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

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

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

Nothing is really 'safe'.

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.

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.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

We live in an unsafe world.

...our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

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

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

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

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

He that's secure is not safe.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

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

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.