The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Everybody is entertained to death.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.