“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”
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“If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.”
“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”
“The strongest passion is fear.”
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
“The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.”
“I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.”
“I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.”
“Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.”
“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.”
“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”
“In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!”
“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.”
“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
“Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?”
“Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
“If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.”
“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.”
“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”