“I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.” KnowsLittlesDarknessDoorsSafeAreasConfusionAbsurdity Author:David Lynch
“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'” PeopleWorldNeedsBelieveWellsBeliefReligiousVirtueNiceDoorsTeachingSafeEvidenceExtremismExtremistOh WellCriticise Author:Richard Dawkins
“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.” SelfHandsPoliticalFoundOpportunityWealthJusticeEconomyVirtueDoorsTalentBalanceSafeDemandBasesPropertyBraveChecksIdleMeterCommonwealthAdjustingIndustriousImbecilesPolitical Economy Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point of view, when you describe it that way, who could be against that?” IfsWayTryingLooksUsePerfectViewsDoorsPolicyKeysSafeSolutionsCourtPoint Of ViewCopiesEmergenciesBack Doors Author:Matt Blaze
“Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward broadening the perspective. Our role is to work together to create books that act as wide-open doors - books that allow all children to walk through and feel safe enough to stay.” ThinkingWayFeelsChildrenLongBookEnoughTogetherWalksRolesDoorsPerspectiveSafeBlameWideWorking TogetherEditorsPoolDiversePublishersLong Way Author:Jerry Pinkney
“Growing up, my Mexican town of Monterrey was so safe, we wouldn't lock our cars or our front doors, and that is gone.” GoneGrowing UpGrowingDoorsCarFrontsSafeTownsLocksMexicanFront Doors Author:Andrea Suarez Paz
“I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.” PeopleHappensAgeDiesMy OwnDoorsSafeLockedSuburbsSafe Places Author:Mary Downing Hahn