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.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

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.

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.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

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.

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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.

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Fear is real, but so is love.

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.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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

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

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.

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.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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