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

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

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

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

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.

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

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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

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

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.