Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words “make” and “stay” become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
—Tom Robbins
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens—but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.
—Tom Robbins
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
—Paula Poundstone
Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.
—Leslie Nielsen
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
—Greek Proverb
A 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.
—Henry Miller
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
—Confucius
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
—Edmund Burke
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
—General Douglas Macarthur
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
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
—Tennessee Williams
Security is a kind of death.
—Willa Cather
My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.
—Helen M. Stump
Beyond the quest for financial security and personal comfort, what, if anything, are we committed to?
—Nathan McCall
Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
—Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent