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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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 noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

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

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

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.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

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

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

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

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

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.