False Sense Of Security Quotes

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

A false sense of security is the only kind there is.

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there’s no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security – and that’s worth less than no sense of security at all.