My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.

—Helen M. Stump

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More quotations tagged with “security”

Security is a kind of death.

—Willa Cather

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

—Tennessee Williams

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

—Helen Keller

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

—General Douglas Macarthur

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

—Edmund Burke

History

1 Jan 2016 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.