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The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How is a national leader to explain the sacrifice of so much for nothing?

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out... and do it.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul.

The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.

There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.