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.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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 late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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 end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

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.

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

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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

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.

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.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

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.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.