In time we hate that which we often fear.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

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.

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

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

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.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

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.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Acting is happy agony.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.