Fear Quotes

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.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

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.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.