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I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
- Politics
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Our March to Freedom is Irreversible (1990)
- Freedom
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Female Eunuch (1970), Introduction
- Freedom
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945Freedom from Fear (1991)
- Power
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Introduction to the 1831 edition of FrankensteinIn context
- Writing
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart1260–1328Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- God
- Love
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.
Huey P. Newton1942–1989Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 190
- Life & Death
We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, “hard man!”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013
- Men
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)
- Advice
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Susan Sontag1933–2004AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), “Moral Thoughts and Reflections”
- Knowledge
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 26 & 27
- Religion
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.
Jim Carreyborn 19622014 Maharishi University graduation ceremony
- Motivation & Goals
We don’t live in our fears, we live in our hopes.
MTMike Tomlinborn 1972Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in “Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?” by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007)
- Hope
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling1924–1975Closing narration of The Twilight Zone, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” (4 March 1960)
- War & Peace