We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
Interpretation
We have the right to live without fear, but we must also take responsibility for maintaining that security.
This quote emphasizes the duality of rights and responsibilities in society. While everyone is entitled to a safe and secure life, achieving that security requires collective action and commitment from all individuals to contribute towards a crime-free and orderly environment. It highlights the importance of mutual responsibility in ensuring the safety and freedom of all members in a community.
In practice
This quote would be appropriate in a community meeting focused on safety initiatives.
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
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