top of page
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fear quotes

"Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry."

"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear."

"Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices."
Explore more quotes by Gijs de Vries

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."

"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."

"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."

"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."

"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."

"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."

"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
bottom of page