For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
-Titus Lucretius Carus
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (first inaugural address, March 4, 1933)
The facts of [the Japanese attacks] speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (speech to Congress, December 8, 1941)
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason . . . [W]e are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. This is no time . . . to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Bene Gesserit: Litany Against Fear)
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my hand into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
- Mahatma Gandhi
As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
- Jawaharlar Nehru
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
- Billy Graham
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death, I will fear no evil
- Psalms 23:4
I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
- Bob Dylan
Don't let the righties say you support the terrorist if you don't want illegal wire taps. All they know is fear. Republicans will use fear this election.