“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”
“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.”
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
“Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”
“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”
“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
“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.”
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
“Where fear is, happiness is not.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“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.”
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
“Those who own much have much to fear.”
“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”