959 private quotes tagged fear

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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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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“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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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke

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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

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