959 private quotes tagged fear

“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.” — George Orwell

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“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.” — Plato

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.” — Plutarch

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“The thing I fear most is fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” — Miles Davis

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“Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.” — Mason Cooley

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“Scalded cats fear even cold water.” — Thomas Fuller

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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein

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“Only the contemptible fear contempt.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” — Bertrand Russell

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“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Where fear is, happiness is not.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.” — Sophocles

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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” — Bertrand Russell

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