Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis BaconMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonYou can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
Terry PratchettPeace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
Narendra ModiI continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
Alice WalkerI am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.
Herbert HooverThere is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch SpinozaThe concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie RobinsonWhy is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
EminemWell, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.
Kamala HarrisFear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale CarnegieI’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
Steven WrightThe dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?
Alice WalkerI’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady GagaParis by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
Karl LagerfeldHuman beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard ShawI cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
Jackie RobinsonI’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.
Lady GagaI used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.
Keanu ReevesThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
James BaldwinNothing good ever comes of violence.
Martin LutherWe must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsYou will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Ho Chi MinhPoverty 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.
J. K. RowlingIn the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
David HareIt takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous HuxleyI detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson MandelaThe poorest people are the sweetest people.
Denzel WashingtonHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaMen despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise PascalYou are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann HesseFear clogs; faith liberates.
Elbert HubbardPeople are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
Billie EilishNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe RuthI know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Alice WalkerIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
DrakeYou entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
Bob MarleyAs a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.
John KennedyThis administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.
George CarlinTo fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand RussellTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo CoelhoAn unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiWith compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
Thich Nhat HanhIt is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
EpicurusDeath 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.
J. K. RowlingI should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
Abraham LincolnIn the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John SteinbeckAmericans 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.
Warren BuffettLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyOvercoming 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.
Richard BransonNothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard ShawThe more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart TolleI’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
David BowieLet’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.
Kamala HarrisNo good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John RuskinOnly he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mahatma Gandhi