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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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

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

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

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

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.

... 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.

... 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.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

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.