#safety

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#education #form #government #infant #itself

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield. ↗

— Paul Murray

#children #danger #safety #faith

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches. ↗

— Ronnie Lott

#best #bigger #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard. ↗

— Ed Markey

#fire #first #historic #last #last year

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ↗

— Dudley Moore

#car #cop #device #mirror #safety

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless. ↗

— Colson Whitehead

#guns #ideas #life #plans #protection

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#endangers #hands #nation #property #remain

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. ↗

— Plautus

#children #comprises #country #courage #homes

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. ↗

— Sally Ride

#after #challenger #fix #gone #had