Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 196 Fear quotesFear QuotesFear Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. Bush The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.~ Nicholas Murray Butler Men willingly believe what they wish.~ Gaius Julius Caesar I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John Cage Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.~ William J. Campbell Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.~ Albert Camus If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.~ Jimmy Carter At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.~ E. H. Chapin Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.~ Chinese Proverb Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.~ Sir Winston Churchill You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.~ Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.~ Sir Winston Churchill The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.~ Paulo Coelho We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.~ Marvin Cooley The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.~ Clarence S. Darrow Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.~ William O. Douglas Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print