safety, n.Definitions

Safety's mother is early and provident fear.

Safety itself numbers among the infinite dangers of life.

Safety's foundation is fear.

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.

Safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

Safety doesn't happen by accident.

Safety is second nature to us (as in safety when we walk the streets at night safely) due solely to the working of special institutions and the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses and which serves as the bond of what holds the state together.

Safety is, in Japan, a feeling derived from the maintenance of 'proper station'. One is safe not in the sense that one's best good is protected but that one is 'safe' because one has accepted hierarchy as legitimate.