Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

People want security in this insecure world.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Hope and certainty are the enemies of peace.

If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

I'm never comfortable.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security.

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

The insecure way is the secure way.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

No social stability without individual stability.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.