fear Quotes

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.