“Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.” WantNeedsYearsIdeasWealthInspiringSecurityIdentityDrugCaughtCaught UpAddict Author:Paul L Wachtel
“I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world.” ThinkingWorldTryingHumansRaceSecurityIdentityParticularColorUltimatePrimariesBordersHuman RaceAllegianceSanctityRenounce Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.” IfsKindTodayPoliticsEconomySecurityMovementIdentityTypeProtectLaborOrganizedLiberalismEmployeeCollectivesCapitalistEmployersPremisesBargainingLabor MovementOrganized LaborCollective BargainingCapitalist Economy Book:Reveille for Radicals Source: Reveille for Radicals
“Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.” MenIndividualBornLosesAtheismSecurityIdentityEgoMassUniversalPositive AtheismPsychopath Author:Robert M. Lindner
“The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.” PeopleNeedsBelieveOrderChristSecurityIdentity Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.” WayNamesSecurityCrimeIdentityAddressesMagistrates Author:Ariana Franklin
“We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.” BelieveWholeBigsAgeMovingStuffSecurityInformationIdentityInternetMessagesDistanceIceDataInstantPrivacyIronParticipationInfrastructurePublishBlogsParticipatingFacilitateComputingStorageInformation AgeIce AgeMoving OutCloud ComputingData Centers Author:Scott McNealy
“We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.” KnowsValuesCommunityLevelsSecurityIdentityMembersBelongingEthicalGenerator Author:John Gardner
“Broke up created a crisis...in every circumstance because a family gets blown apart. We all know what that does to a child. We all know what that does to a woman's identity. But, at the same time, it caused me to start to reevaluate all those things weren't able to stay intact - all the people's attention, all the success, the financial security. It didn't have any value.” PeopleKnowsChildrenDoeAbleValuesAttentionSecurityIdentityCircumstancesCrisisFinancialBrokeBroke UpFinancial Security Author:Patricia Mauceri
“We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.” WorldSecurityIdentityEnlightenmentImprovementQuestsSearching For Happiness Author:Steven Harrison
“[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mothers womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.” MightMotherGivenBornLosesGraceAliveSecurityIdentitySourceMercyWombExteriorImplantsSource Of Strength Author:John Philip Newell
“Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCertainCultureEconomicSecurityIdentityCommunicationInternetDirectClashEconomic Security Author:Barack Obama