Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

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

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

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

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.