# Quotes about safety - Quotes: 41 - Authors: 33 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.json ## Quotes > For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers – but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens. [Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/for-our-physiology.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md), [trauma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trauma.md) > Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. [Bessel van der Kolk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk.md) · [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bessel-van-der-kolk/the-body-keeps-the-score/being-able-to-feel.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md), [psychology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/psychology.md) > Empathy is what makes people feel safe in relationships. Along with self-awareness, it's the soul of emotional intelligence, guiding people toward prosocial behavior and fairness in dealings with others. In contrast, nonempathic people overlook your feelings and don't seem to imagine your experience or be sensitive to it. It's important to be aware of this, because a person who isn't responsive to your feelings won't be emotionally safe when the two of you have any kind of disagreement. [Lindsay C. Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson.md) · [Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lindsay-c-gibson/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents/empathy-is-what.md) Topics: [empathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy.md), [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > You are allowed to feel safe, " Miss Virtue said. Bitter blinked, the tears heated her eyes because the words were so simple, yet so heavy with permission. [Akwaeke Emezi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi.md) · [Bitter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter/you-are-allowed.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > ...a reluctance to recognise that today's safety and comfort were bought fifty years ago by means which today's intelligentsia find unacceptable, and from which they wish to distance themselves. [George MacDonald Fraser](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser.md) · [Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser/quartered-safe-out-here-a-recollection-of-the-war-in-burma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-macdonald-fraser/quartered-safe-out-here-a-recollection-of-the-war-in-burma/a-reluctance-to-recognise.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > People want to be safe, and comfortable. If safety and comfort is to be found in guns, then they will take up guns—of their own accord, in their own need. And when safety and comfort are found in libraries, then the guns rust. [Algis Budrys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys.md) · [Some Will Not Die](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/some-will-not-die.md) · p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/some-will-not-die/people-want-to-be-safe.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity. The fact that we are largely unaware of this is small comfort: few in 1914 predicted the utter collapse of their world and the economic and political catastrophes that followed. Insecurity breeds fear. And fear—fear of change, fear of decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest. [Tony Judt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt.md) · [Ill Fares The Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/ill-fares-the-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/ill-fares-the-land/we-have-entered.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > There was a sense of security in old, familiar feelings in spite of their discomfort. [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr.md) · [The Room](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room/there-was-a-sense.md) Topics: [habits](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/habits.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > A cage is a safe place as long as nobody has the key. [Connie Willis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis.md) · [Fire Watch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/fire-watch.md) · p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/connie-willis/fire-watch/a-cage-is-a-safe.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Authoritarians offer citizens a deal: if we hand over our freedom, they will guarantee certainty and safety. This might have been possible in a closed society with little interaction between people, but it is a false promise in a knowledge economy where citizens are interconnected. If the best chaos theorists can't model the weather beyond a week, how does the National Security Agency think it can predict which of us will turn into a terrorist? If our intelligence agencies persist in monopolising knowledge we will see continued intelligence failures. [Heather Brooke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke.md) · [The Revolution will be Digitised](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised.md) · p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/authoritarians-offer-citizens.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > The world may be more complex and uncertain than we would like, but giving away our freedom for the false promises of protection is not a sustainable solution. We are defined not just by what we preach, but by what we practice. We cannot claim to be an enlightened democratic society if we live in breach of these values, without the rule of law, without reason, or the rigorous commitment to truth. [Heather Brooke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke.md) · [The Revolution will be Digitised](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised.md) · p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/the-world-may.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > We sit here safe, within a circle of swords held by other men. [David Gemmell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell.md) · [Waylander II](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/waylander-ii.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/waylander-ii/we-sit-here.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them. [Warren Farrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell.md) · [Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say.md) · p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/warren-farrell/women-cant-hear-what-men-dont-say/when-either-sex.md) Topics: [emotions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > In his view, the true deep human fantasy was the conviction of safety. Men believed their women were devoted; wives felt that their men were dependable. Both ignored contrary evidence. [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md) · [Beyond Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity.md) · p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/beyond-infinity/in-his-view.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did? [Cormac McCarthy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy.md) · [No Country for Old Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/no-country-for-old-men.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/no-country-for-old-men/it-had-already.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > That country will have the greatest security whose informational and scientific situation is adequate to meet the demands that may be put on it—the country in which it is fully realized that information is important as a stage in the continuous process by which we observe the outer world, and act effectively upon it. In other words, no amount of scientific research, carefully recorded in books and papers, and then put into our libraries with labels of secrecy, will be adequate to protect us for any length of time in a world where the effective level of information is perpetually advancing. [Norbert Wiener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norbert-wiener.md) · [The Human Use Of Human Beings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norbert-wiener/the-human-use-of-human-beings.md) · p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norbert-wiener/the-human-use-of-human-beings/that-country-will.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md), [information](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/information.md) > "I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me." [Banksy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy.md) · [Wall and Piece](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/banksy/wall-and-piece/i-need-someone.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Security trumped productivity. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [Settling Accounts: Return Engagement](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement.md) · p. 465 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement/security-trumped-productivity.md) Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Apart from the Volunteer companies, a lot of men in San Francisco carried guns for self-protection—not least, for protection from other men carrying guns. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [How Few Remain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain.md) · p. 395 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain/apart-from-the.md) Topics: [irony](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md), [weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/weapons.md) > [C]oncessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. [Thucydides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides.md) · [History of the Peloponnesian War](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/c-oncessions-to-adversaries.md) Topics: [enemies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/enemies.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > “When it comes to strangers with guns,” I told her, “I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.” [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md) · [Parable of the Sower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower.md) · p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower/when-it-comes.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. [Walter M. Miller Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr.md) · [A Canticle for Leibowitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/to-minimize-suffering.md) Topics: [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md), [the state](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > There's no such thing as security in this life, sweetheart; and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes that she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show. [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md) · [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/half-asleep-in-frog-pajamas.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/half-asleep-in-frog-pajamas/theres-no-such.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > I felt sorry for him at that moment. He only wanted what every man wanted—freedom from fear, a chance to raise children with a reasonable certainty that they would be allowed to do the same, a chance to look forward to the future without the knowledge that any plans made might be wrecked forever by some sudden act of violence. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The Eternal Champion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion/i-felt-sorry.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > “I think you serve a great purpose, Hawkmoon. I think your destiny is a noble one.” > > Hawkmoon laughed. “And yet I do not pine for a noble destiny—merely a secure one.” [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The Sword of the Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn.md) · p. 380 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn/i-think-you.md) Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > “I have heard it said it is often safer to dwell in the lion’s lair than outside it,” Oladahn said. > > “Safer still to live in a land where there are no lions,” Count Brass retorted. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The Sword of the Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn.md) · p. 291 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn/i-have-heard.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men. [Aldo Leopold](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold.md) · [A Sand County Almanac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold/a-sand-county-almanac.md) · p. 133 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldo-leopold/a-sand-county-almanac/we-all-strive.md) Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems. [J. G. Ballard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard.md) · [Cocaine Nights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard/cocaine-nights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard/cocaine-nights/town-scapes-are-changing.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md), [cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cities.md) > Everywhere you look — Britain, the States, western Europe — people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake — a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation. [J. G. Ballard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard.md) · [Cocaine Nights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard/cocaine-nights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-g-ballard/cocaine-nights/everywhere-you-look.md) Topics: [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was trusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people, to which he is obliged by the law of nature, and to render an account thereof to God, the Author of that law, and to none but Him. But by safety here is not meant a bare preservation, but also all other contentments of life, which every man by lawful industry, without danger or hurt to the Commonwealth, shall acquire to himself. > > And this is intended should be done, not by care applied to individuals, further than their protection from injuries when they shall complain; but by a general providence, contained in public instruction, both of doctrine and example; and in the making and executing of good laws to which individual persons may apply their own cases. [Thomas Hobbes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes.md) · [Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/the-office-of-the.md) Topics: [the state](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace. [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [Enchantment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/enchantment.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/enchantment/marriage-is-about.md) Topics: [children](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > When will the Israelis realize—as some already have—that a sustained racist brutality against Arabs, in a Middle East where Israel is surrounded by 300 million Arabs and 1.2 billion Muslims, will bring the Jewish state neither normalcy nor security? [Edward W. Said](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said.md) · [From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map/when-will-the.md) Topics: [racism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/racism.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. [Alan W. Watts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts.md) · [The Wisdom of Insecurity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-w-watts/the-wisdom-of-insecurity/it-must-be-obvious.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all. [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md) · [A Scanner Darkly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/a-scanner-darkly.md) · p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/a-scanner-darkly/that-life-had.md) Topics: [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > “Hasn’t all this taught you anything?” Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum's return and report. > > “Like what?” > > “That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living. [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md) · [Clans of the Alphane Moon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/clans-of-the-alphane-moon.md) · p. 226 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/clans-of-the-alphane-moon/hasnt-all-this.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [risk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. [Eleanor Roosevelt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt.md) · [Tomorrow Is Now](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/tomorrow-is-now.md) · p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-roosevelt/tomorrow-is-now/there-never-has.md) Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-eye-that.md) Topics: [risk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/risk.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-guild-navigators.md) Topics: [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > There is no safety this side of the grave. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Stranger in a Strange Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/there-is-no-safety.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. [Edmund Burke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke.md) · [Reflections on the Revolution in France](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/better-to-be-despised.md) Topics: [caution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/caution.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md) > Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The Time Machine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/strength-is-the.md) Topics: [strength](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength.md), [safety](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/safety.md)