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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil on fear

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal on fear

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
Francois Rabelais on fear

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr on fear

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus on fear

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope on fear

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles on fear

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom on fear

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad on fear

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
Kevin Bacon on fear

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone on fear

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller on fear

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks on fear

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Sylvester Stallone on fear

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
Andrew Jackson on fear

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas Huxley on fear

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley on fear

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann on fear

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus on fear

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I on fear