Security Mindset Quotes

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.

I'm just not security-minded.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

It's not smart to get caught without a gun.

The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

Singaporeans generally feel more secure these days. One of our tasks is to remind them that this, a result of a continuing act of will and an appropriate sense of insecurity, is very helpful.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Whatever it takes to make you more secure with yourself, you can learn to do it.

I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

C'mon now, I'm not going to make it easy for the terrorists to get me.