Security Paradox Quotes

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

A nation, in order to be secure in its defense, has to be stronger than its potential enemy. Then what becomes of the defense of the other? Is he to have none?

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.

I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?

This is... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger... it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.

The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.

As safe and secure as you believe you are is as vulnerable as you can turn out to be.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

A security program where everything that is technical possible is done, undermines trust and in the long run produces less security.

It is dangerous to live in a secure world.