Fear Quotes - page 4

The only thing I am afraid of is fear. (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. View quote
Susan Sontag
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. View quote
Aleister Crowley
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. View quote
Margaret Mead
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. View quote
George S. Patton
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. View quote
George S. Patton
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. (Alfred Kinsey)
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. View quote
Emil Cioran
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. View quote
Livy
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. View quote
Joseph Addison
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. View quote
William Saroyan
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. View quote
John Dryden
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. View quote
John Goodman
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. (Xun Zi)
Your children don't have to fear you to respect you. View quote
Michael Madsen
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. View quote
Dale Carnegie
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Who sows fear, reaps weapons. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt