I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

As she'd left, I'd glanced at her gun.This time, when she'd pointed it at me, she'd flicked the safety on. If that wasn't true love, I don't know what was.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it. Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

Most of these kids, this is where they eat their own meal and they have been through so many many horrible things and this is a safe place for them.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia; it's only the people who make them unsafe.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Everybody know that if you're too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.