- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.
- Economic System
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I grew up in fear. When I was four, all my other relatives were deported to the countryside, having to leave most of their personal belongings behind.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is natural. Be with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the mother of foresight.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
- Exporting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020