“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
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“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”
“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.”
“Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.”
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”
“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”
“Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.”
“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”
“I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.”
“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.”
“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.”
“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”
“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.”
“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.”
“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”
“The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.”
“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”