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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov on fear

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach on fear

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell on fear

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur on fear

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
George S. Patton on fear

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar on fear

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli on fear

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell on fear

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on fear

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde on fear

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling on fear

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell on fear

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton on fear

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope on fear

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear

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.
Bertrand Russell on fear

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Abdul Kalam on fear

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Tecumseh on fear

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell on fear

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte on fear