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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear.

Tim Murphy

Politician · Canadian · b. 1952

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Jeffrey Sachs

Economist · American · b. 1954

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Warren Farrell

Writer · American · b. 1943

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

Poet · German · 1898 – 1956

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George Washington Carver

Scientist · American · 1864 – 1943

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Ella Maillart

Writer · Swiss · 1903 – 1997

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

Writer · Russian · b. 1948

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Philip Levine

Poet · American · b. 1928

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Poet · English · 1592 – 1644

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

Rudy Giuliani

Politician · American · b. 1944

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Geraldine Ferraro

Politician · American · 1935 – 2011

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Christiane Amanpour

Journalist · English · b. 1958

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

John C. Hawkes

Novelist · American · 1925 – 1998

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben Gurion

Statesman · Israeli · 1896 – 1973

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Camille Pissarro

Artist · French · 1830 – 1903

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Taylor Caldwell

Author · American · 1900 – 1985

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Erica Jong

Novelist · American · b. 1942

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

Journalist · English · 1903 – 1974

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Julia Ward Howe

Activist · American · 1819 – 1910

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

Dramatist · French · 1606 – 1684

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Writer · French · 1783 – 1842

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

Artist · American · 1927 – 1987

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

Richard King

Director

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet · German · 1875 – 1926

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Roger Ascham

Writer · English

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone

Leader · British · 1809 – 1898

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

Activist · American · b. 1928

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Francis Beaumont

Playwright · English

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

Jose Bergamin

Writer · Spanish

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie

Novelist · Indian · b. 1947

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

Sophocles

Poet · Greek

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.

Gavin Newsom

Politician · American · b. 1967

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

Leonard Maltin

Critic · American · b. 1950

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

Soldier · American · 1880 – 1964

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

Georg Brandes

Critic · Danish · 1842 – 1927

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist · Italian · 1452 – 1519

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

Journalist · English · b. 1946

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Xun Zi

Philosopher · Chinese

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

St. Jerome

Saint

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Elizabeth Dole

Politician · American · b. 1936

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

Robert Falcon Scott

Explorer · British · 1868 – 1912

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Robert Walpole

Statesman · British · 1676 – 1745

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Eric Hoffer

Writer · American · 1902 – 1983

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

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