Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise PascalI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil ArmstrongLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James BaldwinI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamDesire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William ShakespeareThere is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas JeffersonI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe 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!
George S. PattonAn individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Noam ChomskyIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar WildeCharacter is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNone but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand RussellSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonI can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
Billy GrahamIf I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
Edmund HillaryAll this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob DylanThe only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
Joyce MeyerMy 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.
Joyce MeyerI have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.
AuroraKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PlatoYou must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul SartreIf a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeAbout morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayIt has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mahatma GandhiToo much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
Dalai LamaI have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel JohnsonHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador DaliRather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
AristotleSo far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.
Alexander the GreatNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John SteinbeckThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheOut of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel KantA lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.
Jocko WillinkEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaAim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David ThoreauImmorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. MenckenTest yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz KafkaMost 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.
Thich Nhat HanhThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert EinsteinPeople must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin LutherJust as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
Leonardo da VinciFor what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus ChristThe first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas CarlyleHe who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon BonaparteThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
Elbert HubbardPower is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma GandhiWhether 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.
Clint EastwoodWe always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert CamusWar grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon HillViolence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
Albert CamusI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert EinsteinAll the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus ChristIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAbortion is clearly wrong.
Jordan PetersonThe word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David ThoreauWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMan’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt