The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

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

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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.

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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Nature is not human hearted.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

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.

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

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

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.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

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

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

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.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

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.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.