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Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore on fear

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce on fear

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur on fear

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne on fear

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus on fear

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller on fear

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on fear

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre on fear

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis on fear

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti on fear

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
Hillary Clinton on fear

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
Javier Bardem on fear

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus on fear

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max Frisch on fear

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe on fear

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette on fear

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield on fear

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus on fear

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Leonardo da Vinci on fear

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl on fear