959 private quotes tagged fear

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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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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”— Aristotle
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“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”— William Shakespeare
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“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”— Alexander Pope
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“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”— Aristotle
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“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”— Plato
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”— Bertrand Russell
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”— Thomas Paine
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“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“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.”— George S. Patton
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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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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”— Socrates
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”— Sun Tzu
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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”— George Eliot
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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”— Miles Davis
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“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”— Lord Byron
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”— Edmund Burke
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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”— Winston Churchill