Fear Quotes - page 4

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. (Xun Zi)
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! View quote
Robert Mugabe
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. View quote
Horace Mann
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government. View quote
James K. Polk
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. View quote
James Thurber
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (Douglas MacArthur)
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. View quote
Umberto Eco
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. View quote
Graham Greene
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The only thing I am afraid of is fear. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. View quote
Susan Sontag
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. View quote
Aleister Crowley
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Margaret Mead)
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. View quote
George S. Patton
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. View quote
George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
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