Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
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.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
The thing I fear most is fear.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Fear is the mother of morality.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Of men who reach my tale of years Who least has cause to make his moan? He who has learnt to banish fears, Who lives and dies unknown.
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