Germaine Greer Quotes

People want security in this insecure world.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

My security is assured everywhere, and at any moment.

I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody anywhere in the world can relate to it. I think everybody wants to feel safe; everybody wants to feel protected.

He that's secure is not safe.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

I guess I crave stability.

I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

The Great Guarantee; and the only sufficient Guarantee

Security is for cadavers.

Predictability can eventually be defended.

We want to know. If we don't know, we don't feel safe, we don't feel secure.

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

Security will produce danger.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

Living safely is dangerous.

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.