Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

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

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

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.

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

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

Fear is real, but so is love.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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.

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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

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.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

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

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.