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Fear Quotes John Adams, quotes about Fear:
Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.more John Adams quotes
Aeschylus, quotes about Fear:
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.more Aeschylus quotes
Aesop, quotes about Fear:
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.more Aesop quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Fear:
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Jann Arden, quotes about Fear:
The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.more Jann Arden quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Fear:
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Fear:
A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Walter Bagehot, quotes about Fear:
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience tells them it is wrong.more Walter Bagehot quotes
Frederic Bastiat, quotes about Fear:
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.more Frederic Bastiat quotes
Dan Baum, quotes about Fear:
The country's first drug ban explicitly targeted the opium of "the heathen Chinee." Cocaine was first banned in the south to prevent an uprising of hopped-up "cocainized Negroes."more Dan Baum quotes
Isaiah Berlin, quotes about Fear:
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time.more Isaiah Berlin quotes
Ambrose Bierce, quotes about Fear:
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.more Ambrose Bierce quotes
Ambrose Bierce, quotes about Fear:
Heathen, n. A benighten creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.more Ambrose Bierce quotes
Daniel Boorstin, quotes about Fear:
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.more Daniel Boorstin quotes
William E. Borah, quotes about Fear:
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.more William E. Borah quotes
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, quotes about Fear:
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.more Justice Louis D. Brandeis quotes
James A. C. Brown, quotes about Fear:
There exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.more James A. C. Brown quotes
Sir Thomas Browne, quotes about Fear:
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.more Sir Thomas Browne quotes
Giordano Bruno, quotes about Fear:
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.more Giordano Bruno quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Fear:
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.more Edmund Burke quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Fear:
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.more Edmund Burke quotes
Edmund Burke, quotes about Fear:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.more Edmund Burke quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
We will fight with full force and might of the United States military.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
Today the Justice Department did issue a blanket alert. It was in recognition of a general threat we received. This is not the first time the Justice Department have acted like this. I hope it is the last. But given the attitude of the evildoers, it may not be.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists -- and every government that supports them.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.more George W. Bush quotes
George W. Bush, quotes about Fear:
We have every reason to assume the worst.more George W. Bush quotes
Nicholas Butler, quotes about Fear:
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.more Nicholas Butler quotes
Gaius Julius Caesar, quotes about Fear:
Men willingly believe what they wish.more Gaius Julius Caesar quotes
John Cage, quotes about Fear:
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.more John Cage quotes
William J. Campbell, quotes about Fear:
Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.more William J. Campbell quotes
Albert Camus, quotes about Fear:
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.more Albert Camus quotes
Jimmy Carter, quotes about Fear:
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.more Jimmy Carter quotes
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, quotes about Fear:
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.more Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
Chinese Proverb, quotes about Fear:
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.more Chinese Proverb quotes
Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Fear:
Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Fear:
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
Sir Winston Churchill, quotes about Fear:
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.more Sir Winston Churchill quotes
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, quotes about Fear:
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.more François Duc de La Rochefoucauld quotes
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, quotes about Fear:
Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.more François Duc de La Rochefoucauld quotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quotes about Fear:
It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word.more Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes
Theodore M. Drange, quotes about Fear:
Some methodological atheists formulate the principle by saying that the burden of proof is always on any person making an existence claim, since, from a logical point of view, existence claims are only capable of proof, not disproof. No one has ever proven the nonexistence of Santa Claus, or elves, or unicorns, or anything else, simply because the very logic of an unrestricted existential proposition prohibits its disproof. It is impossible to go all over the universe and show that, for example, there are no elves anywhere. For this reason, rational methodology calls for us to deny the existence of all those things which have never been shown to exist. That is why we all regard it rational to deny the existence of Santa Claus, elves, unicorns, etc. And since God is in that same category, having never been shown to exist, it follows that rational methodology calls for us to deny the existence of God.more Theodore M. Drange quotes
John J. Dunphy, quotes about Fear:
I steadfastly maintain that only with the complete, irrevocable rejection of God and the supernatural will humankind truly begin to live. Rather than producing a feeling of despair, the decision to embrace atheism should result in an exhilarating, almost intoxicating sense of freedom, something akin to the experience of those American slaves who rejoiced upon hearing news of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Only the atheist is truly free.more John J. Dunphy quotes
Albert Einstein, quotes about Fear:
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.more Albert Einstein quotes