Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.