Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I never dared be a radical when young, for fear it would make me a conservative when old.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juicesMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The fear of death is worse than death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]