Fear Quotes

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.