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Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is not weakness and fear, but confusion, lack of clarity, and lack of sound intention. If you are able to discern the path with heart and follow it even when at the moment it seems wrong, then and only then are you strong. Remember the words of Tao te ching. "The only true strength is a strength that people do not fear." Strength based in force is a strength people fear. Strength based in love is a strength people crave.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.