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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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.

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.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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.

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.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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 was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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.

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

Fear is real, but so is love.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

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.

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

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

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.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

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

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.