959 private quotes tagged fear

“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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“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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“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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“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.” — William Shakespeare

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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” — Alexander Pope

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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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“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.” — Aristotle

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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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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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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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