People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Words are loaded pistols.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.

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

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

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.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Music is something no one can control.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

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

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

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.

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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.