“Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.” ImportantInterestDealsCommonEnemySecurityThreatPartnersPalestinianIsraeliCommon Enemy Author:Dennis A. Ross
“In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.” IfsStatesPurposeEnemyCasesSecurityMilitaryAimThreatSeekingAbandonFulfilledConquestMaintenance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.” EnemySecurityDangerousIntellectualResponsibleIsraelInertia Author:David Ben-Gurion
“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.” IfsHeartLawReadingIndividualNaturalEnemyPracticeOur LivesViolenceWrittenSecurityTheoryTrainingMethodLaysIntuitionPlotCustomsInstructionAdoptionRobbersIndividual RightsAbsorptionProtecting Ourselves Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.” NextLosesLevelsEffortEnemySecurityStonesBasesComplexesDareDefenseManageAssaultStepping Stones Book:This Alien Shore Source: This Alien Shore
“The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.” PeopleWantKindWarHateOrderSituationEnemyFantasyAtheismSecurityDangerExpectationsThreatSurpriseAll KindsMysteriousTensionInsecurityFearfulProvokingVagueInsecureUnbearableAnticipateVacuums Author:Joost Meerloo
“Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.” WritingEnoughEnemySecurityComfortComplainingStuckBlockNovelistsAdviseAgonizing Author:John Burdett
“There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!” HumansStillsGovernmentCareLastsRealizingSecretEnemyBreakSecurityWindowPropertyMeetingsStrikesHuman LifeRebellionIdolsLast WordsSuffrageWomen's Suffrage Author:Emmeline Pankhurst
“It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.” HeartMayStillsWarHandsNationsEnemyMankindSecurityDangerDesignDivineDutyDefeatProtectionDefenseRageOccasionsAcknowledgeAlmightyDependenceSuitableUndertakingsProvincesAlmighty GodPublic Good Author:Benjamin Franklin
“May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy” MayQualityEnemyDemocracySecurityDevilMarchQuality Of LifeCrushedSkullsGoodwillGod Is With You Author:Ted Nugent
“I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.” PeopleLongWarFacesEvilEnemySecurityDangerousColdAppreciateThreatWorriedCommunistSovietCold WarSeriousnessNazism Author:Joe Lieberman
“I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.” MenWantHumansLongIdeasSeemsCausesNaturalHuman BeingsLibertyEnemySecurityConvincedTyrantsIndignationProceedingAbhorrentEnterprising Author:H. L. Mencken
“The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.” HumansHas BeensStatesChallengesEnemyDoubtSecurityMilitaryDangerousCrimeActivityAimMerePopulationComplicatedTerrorismPunishmentDoctrineBreathingInternalsProtestMechanismNational SecurityArbitraryRepressionStandpointPreventionHuman ActivitySigns Of Life Author:Eduardo Galeano
“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
“At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.” WayWellsLooksTwoInterestEnemySecurityHavensDependsSafeDetermineDenyTerroristResolveAlliesAfghanistanStakesProvidingNational SecurityPakistanComponentsDeliberationSafe HavenIndecisiveness Author:Rahm Emanuel
“The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.” ShouldStatesPurposeLibertyStepsEnemySecurityCitizensProtectionWelfareMutualRestrictionSolicitude Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt