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“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O son of Adam, when you see that your Lord, the Glorified, bestows His Favors on you while you disobey Him, you should fear Him (take warning that His Wrath may not turn those very blessings into misfortunes).”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through us you got guidance in the darkness and secured high position, and through us you got out of the gloomy night. The ears which do not listen to the cries may become deaf. How can one who remained deaf to the loud cries (of the Qur'an and the Prophet) listen to (my) feeble voice. The heart that has ever palpitated (with fear of Allah) may get peace.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear not the thunder, little one. It's weather, simply weather; It's friendly giants full of fun Clapping their hands together.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) said by 1226 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The 'We' Fallacy" (1988).
“This is why the fake term Islamophobia is so dangerous: It insinuates that any reservations about Islam must ipso facto be “phobic.” A phobia is an irrational fear or dislike. Islamic preaching very often manifests precisely this feature, which is why suspicion of it is by no means irrational.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Test of Tolerance", Slate (August 2010)
“Now I sit by my window and I watch the cars I fear I’ll do some damage One fine day But I would not be convicted By a jury of my peers Still crazy Still crazy Still crazy after all these years.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never been lonely, Never been lied to, Never had to scuffle in fear, Nothing to dive to, Born at the instant, The church bells chime, The whole world whispering, You're born at the right time.”
Paul Simon (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Visit us again, Savior.Your children, burdened with disbelief, blinded by a patina of wisdom, carom down this vale of fear. We cry for you although we have lost your name.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us." Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy <!-- part of this was cited to be from Think and Grow Rich (1938), but this does not ap…
“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.”
Peter Medawar (1915–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wie lieb ich diesen edlen Mann Mehr als ich mit Worten sagen kann. Doch fürcht' ich, dass er bleibt allein Mit seinem strahlenen Heiligenschein. (How much do I love that noble man More than I could tell with words I fear though he'll remain alone With a holy halo of his own.)”
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Albert Einstein, first stanza in his poem "Zu Spinozas Ethik" (1920), written in admiration of Spinoza, as quoted in Einstein and Religion (1999) by Max Jammer "Einstein's Poem on Spinoza" (with scans of original German…
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry, "Reading Notes" (1905-1907), quoted in Ruth Elvish Mantz and John Middleton Murry, The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933), p. 212
“How very much like a native of Earth this creature was. Governed by its stomach and a will to survive. A religion founded in fear and nurtured on terror.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear in the hands of a motion picture maker, like a shotgun in the hands of a baby, need not necessarily be properly aimed to make a helluva bang. But to hit the target dead-on, requires maturity and thought.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. But there is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: When belief in a god dies, the god dies. When the last acolyte renounces his faith and turns to another deity, the god ceases to be.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”
Larry Ellison (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.”
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theologians, pretenders, soothsayers, parsons, priests, popes, bishops, have taken advantage of that. They have stood by graves and promised heaven. They have stood by graves and prophesied a future filled with pain. They have erected their toll-gates on the highway of life and have collected money from fear.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The church has not turned the minds of men toward principles of justice, mercy and truth—it has destroyed the foundation of justice. It does not minister comfort at the coffin—it fills the mourners with fear. It has never preached a gospel of “Peace on Earth”—it has never preached “Good Will toward men.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times (8 January 1981)
“Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.”
Graham Greene (1904–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objections but the ground of quarrel. It is rather covert enmity which we have most cause to fear and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baptismal Regeneration" (June 5, 1864), Sermon 573
“O the dangerous siege Sin lays about us! And the tyranny He exercises when he hath expung’d, Like to the horror of a winter’s thunder, Mix’d with a gushing storm; that suffers nothing To stir abroad on earth, but their own rages, Is sin, when it hath gather’d head above us: No roof, no shelter can secure us so, But he will drown our cheeks in fear or woe.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the fear of the "gay agenda" that has so upset people? Do people think that if gay people are given a place at the table, they'll be so convincing we'll all end up blowing them? What is the issue? "You know, I'm straight, but you've made such a convincing argument...”
Jon Stewart (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He has no hope that never had a fear.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Truth", l. 298 (1782)
“Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. — respect.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) first seen 1837 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notebook B" (1837-1838) page 231
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 479
“Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: on Friedman's advising of the Israeli government, "The Private Man and the Public Life; Interview With Galbraith", The Washington Post (26 April 1981)
“Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1991), by John Toland, also quoted in "Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II (1995) by Jacob G. Hornberger
“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.”
John Adams (1735–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)
“dear boss i relay this information without any fear that humanity will take warning and reform”
Don Marquis (1878–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, maybe it seems barren; maybe it feels as if there is no hope, no kindness, no reason for happiness. But deep within you, undeniably, something rumbles, cries out, wants to be born. Allow the joy to come forward. Allow the hope to exist.”
Prem Rawat (born 1957) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Madrid, Spain September 1990
“fear or freedom choose freedom choose freedom -- being free is not an idea it is a feeling it emanates from within”
Prem Rawat (born 1957) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a collection of hundreds of quotes set to music and available online at Maharaji's personal website http://www.maharaji.net/ (2001)
“No fear trembled his voice. Well, she reflected, perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present—they are real.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The old ones are fighting it. They call it off planet corruption, but it’s really the future they fear.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was just a little taken aback. That—that wasn’t the proposition I was expecting, is all. Excuse me. I fear I am become incurably low-minded.” “You can’t help that, I’m sure,” Ethan said tolerantly. “Being female, and all that.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? Miles wondered. What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source