None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
Let's stop trading freedom for the illusion of security.
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
One thing about a pig. He thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.
There is a danger in believing your own hype.
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.
It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
Ignorance and confidence are constant companions
That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
The goal of security is common to all human beings; but some of them mistake the direction in which security lies.
Only foolish people are completely secure.
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!
Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!
I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.
Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes. But the less vulnerable we are because of privilege, the country we're born in, or the security we enjoy, the more vulnerable our souls are to apathy.
