Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

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.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

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

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

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

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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

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

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

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.

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.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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.

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

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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.

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