523 Quotes About Insecurity

You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.

Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injections and liposuction; to nip, tuck, throw up, push up, suck in and laser.

What’s the best thing to do with insecurity? Get rid of it.

Het grote verderf van het "mindere" is, dat het het "betere" aan zichzelf doet twijfelen -, omdat het kenmerk van het "mindere" het redeloze, de zelfverzekerdheid is, en het kenmerk van het "betere", het redelijke, juist "de twijfel".

[I]nsecurity makes inclusion seem like a radical proposition. That’s because insecurity thinks in zero-sum terms, it warns us that our resources are scarce—that we cannot invite others because provisions are already short. Insecurity makes necessary enemies out of potential allies.

[T]he system that has created and sustained the epidemic of insecurity in this country relies on a network of tokens to placate the communities that suffer most.