“Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.” NationsCitiesSecurityPossibilityBrokenIntegrityConcernedTerroristBordersCrossings Author:Chris Cannon
“Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.” IfsKnowsMenShouldMadeBodyFoundNaturalCitiesDestinyAirStreetsSecuritySweetCivilizationScenePureTravelSickTownsVisibleThriveBroadsSanePlagueSan FranciscoCompact Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.” IfsBlackEffortCitiesMillionsSecurityGoes OnDespairIdeologyFrustrationNightmareMarchHallsFrighteningSolacePilgrimageLet Him GoCity Hall Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.” StillsTwoFormCitiesSecurityNew YorkFakeNew York CitySquaresTimes Square Author:David Letterman
“We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.” PeopleRunningCitiesWeekSecurityCrimeLike YouCitizensProtectWeaponsImportanceCriminalsGood PeopleGood CitizenInner City Author:Jesse Lee Peterson
“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest. Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeStillsMatterCertainOpportunityEnergyForceChallengesInterestingCitiesExistenceCreativePathSecuritySourceOffersDegreesReflectionGive MeForestsGood LifeTranquilityWildlifeGood HealthClosenessSophisticationIntellectualismCreative ThinkingCabinsHealth And FitnessResourcefulnessHubWellspring Author:Anne LaBastille
“Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.” KnowsWellsSaidStrongCitiesVirtueSecurityMilitaryWallCitizensDisciplineStrongerTownsBonesSecureExpertsDo You KnowPointingGreat CitiesMilitary Discipline Author:Francois Rabelais
“Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.” HumansHuman BeingsCitiesSecurity Author:Epicurus
“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.” PeopleWorldBigsSchoolJobsGirlLevelsSecretCitiesMillionsSecurityLowsRemainsAccessAround The WorldDeceivingPakistanBig CitiesJobs And Education Author:Malalai Joya
“Take a moment to reflect upon the existence of the musical The Book of Mormon. Now imagine the security precautions that would be required to stage a similar production about Islam. The project is unimaginable—not only in Beirut, Baghdad, or Jerusalem, but in New York City.” BookMomentsWould BeCitiesExistenceImagineStageSecurityNew YorkProjectsIslamMusicalProductionsNew York CityJerusalemUnimaginableBaghdadPrecautionBeirut Author:Sam Harris
“To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.” PeopleRunningWaitingCitiesSecurityCrimeNeededLuckyLuckSoldierIsraelFamiliarBlockHospitalsJailPermitGrandfatherDependenceTeenageEmergenciesHomelandWhimIndignitySqualorCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.” PeopleYearsTwoWaitingHoursRoomsCitiesSecurityDoctorsThirdsFoundationPatientCancerAccessLocalsReportsPhysiciansEnteringSpecialistsResidentsSwedenClinicSwedishUnrulyWaiting RoomsSecurity Guards Book:American Contempt for Liberty Source: American Contempt for Liberty
“Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.” CitiesLordEnemySawsSecurityMountainBlessedExaltedTrembling Author:Ephrem the Syrian
“I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.” ThinkingJusticeCitiesSecurityProtectionAddressesPeasants Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“I was living in New York, so I just rode my motorcycle up to the set [of New Jack City]. So first day of work for me was kind of tough. I get ready to get off my bike, and I'm surrounded by the security guards, who were Louis Farrakhan's Nation Of Islam guys. Who had the double-breasted suits and guns. And this guy goes, "Where you goin'?" And I said, "I'm here to work." And they said, "No you're not." And I said, "Yeah. I'm here to work on the movie." And they said, "No you're not. Get on your bike."” FirstsKindSaidGuyNationsCitiesSecurityNew YorkReadyGunToughYeahIslamSuitsThey SaidBikeThis GuyMotorcycleSecurity GuardsNation Of Islam Author:Judd Nelson
“The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.” Has BeensForceLinesCitiesEconomicSecurityBuildingStrategyInternationalAidsAfghanistanNational SecurityExpandingReconstructionBlockedKabulSecurity ForcesPeace Building Author:Ahmed Rashid