959 private quotes tagged fear

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” — André Gide

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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.” — Aeschylus

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“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” — Khalil Gibran

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“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.” — Aeschylus

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“If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.” — Tori Amos

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“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H. L. Mencken

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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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“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.” — Julius Caesar

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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.” — Martin Luther

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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” — Thomas Paine

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“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.” — Warren Buffett

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“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.” — Voltaire

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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” — Thomas Carlyle

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

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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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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.” — Bill Gates

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.” — Charles Rangel

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“A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.” — Ryan White

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