When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.
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Related Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid. PATRICIA ALEXANDER Lifes biggest fear, is fear itself.
Fear makes you lose your sense of trust.
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And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a... ARTHUR C. CLARKE And besides, we lovers fear everything OVID The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I've tried to live without fear. Fear paralyzes you. I've tried to get on with my life. SALMAN RUSHDIE The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irrespo... JACQUES DELORS No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el... CHRISTOPHER DAWSON We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the ... MALCOLM GLADWELL I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ISABELLE ADJANI Fear is the primary tool of the mafiya. It's how they contain their vast criminal enterprise. For th... GARY "GUNZ" GOVICH Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear th... ERIK PEVERNAGIE And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine. TOM SELLECK My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to... CARLA HALL The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. ... RICHARD BACH Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because... CASSANDRA CLARE They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome th... G. GORDON LIDDY Maybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallnes... CONNIE ROSE PORTER Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. DOUGLAS WOOD We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares... ANN LANDERS I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. ISABELLE ADJANI Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture. ITALO CALVINO The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t... CHRIS HEDGES Since we fear most that which is unknown to us, defining moments of change occur when we choose to k... LEE J. COLAN Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control... BRENT WEEKS The biggest burden we all carry in life is not the fear of death,but the fear of our unpredictable f... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards. MARJANE SATRAPI Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li... SOPHOCLES Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even whe... JOANNA BROOKS It was nice to see that. Our fans have been with us the whole time. When we were playing Dallas and ... BRYCE FISHER I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who th... DANIEL RADCLIFFE Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear ... WILLIAM FAULKNER Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them. MARTINA BOONE We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We are afraid to care to much, for fear that the other person does not care at all ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless,... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a phi... APOLLONIUS OF TYANA We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, a... TED WILLIAMS Remember when welfare mothers were robbing us all blind and driving Cadillacs? JOE BAGEANT We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Mike has always been of interest because he is dynamic, he is not afraid. But there is a fear right ... AL DAVIS It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes
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For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
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