I never think that walls can protect you.
The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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.
There is nothing more dangerous than security.
We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.
For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
It may be tempting to yield to the seductive allure of secrecy in order to preserve the illusion of security.
