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

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

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

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

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’m terrified of losing my voice.

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

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

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

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

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

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.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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.

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!

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

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.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

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

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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

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

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.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

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.

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

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

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

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

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

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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.