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

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

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.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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.

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

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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.

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

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

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.

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.

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.

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

In time we hate that which we often fear.

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

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.