False Safety Quotes

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

In my school as a young girl, they taught us that we would be protected from the atomic bomb if we got under the desk.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

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

It may be tempting to yield to the seductive allure of secrecy in order to preserve the illusion of security.

It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.