fear Quotes

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.