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“I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam.”
Antony Flew (1923–2010) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (2009), p. 88
“The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.”
Antony Flew (1923–2010) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Terrors of Islam", Atheist Notes No. 6, 2004, ISBN 1856372928
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.”
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.”
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.”
John Mortimer (1923–2009) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life (1982), p. 183
“I would address a few words to those who are in sympathy with the Social Democratic Party, but who hesitate to vote for it for fear they may lose their votes. Let me say to you: It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the opening of the Palmerston Club, Oxford (December 1878) as quoted in "Gladstone's Conundrums; The Statesman Answers Sundry Interesting Questions" in The New York Times (9 February 1879)
“What is meant by "Boycotting?" In the first place, it is combined intimidation. In the second place, it is combined intimidation made use of for the purpose of destroying the private liberty of choice by fear of ruin and starvation.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (24 May 1882)
“My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.”
Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: High Adventure : The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (1955)
“Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live well in the houses—well enough. But we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars, and now we dare not go a hundred miles from home. We keep a little knowledge, and do nothing with it. But once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. We did man’s work.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,” he said gently, mockingly. “They were only the dead.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can't hear you. I'm inside my protective blanket of fear.”
Scott Kurtz (born 1971) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PvP, Wednesday, September 6, 2000
“When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,— the other from pride or fear.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mystery is that the world is at it is -- a mystery that is the source of all joy and all sorrow, of all hope and fear, and the source of development both creative and degenerative. The contingency of all into which time enters is the source of pathos, comedy, and tragedy.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.”
David Icke (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mad, Bad, or just prepared to go where others fear to tread? The most controversial author and speaker in the world”
David Icke (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He wants only the simple things: a chair, someone to pull off his shoes, someone to watch him while he talks, with admiration and fear, gratitude if possible, someone in whom to plunge himself for rest and renewal. These things can best be had by marrying a woman who has been condemned to death by other men for wishing to be beautiful. There is a wide choice.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear.”
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cubanet.org (May 15, 2000)
“Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Saviour's death has set us free.”
John Chrysostom (349–407) said by 407 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder… The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fear of falling a prey to error must never prevent us from getting to the full truth. To overstep the limit, to go beyond, would be to err through excessive daring; but there are also errors of timidity which consist precisely in stopping short, never daring to go any further than half-truths.Love of truth never goes without daring. And that is one of the reasons why truth is not loved.”
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What the corporations fear most is that grassroots activists and independent journalists will utilize the same model that companies have used to grab power: globalization. Grassroots globalization.”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Using fear, electoral fraud, and the smokescreen of terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has given us a lesson in how quickly a nation can be hijacked and core tenets of democracy trampled.”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is most admirable about the events we witnessed is that all nations spoke out loud: women, youths, men, everybody overcame fear.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the diplomatic corps, 13 January 1990
“We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Elizabeth Becker (22 December 1978), quoted in "Pol Pot remembered", BBC News (20 April 1998)
“Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 337.
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark. These things, I say, should have come to us. I fear they have not come to many.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.”
Thomas Sowell (born 1930) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Economic 'Plan'?" September 11, 2012.
“When was the last time you stopped yourself from saying something you believed to be true for fear of being punished or criticized for saying it? If you live in America, it probably hasn’t been long.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight. In search of you, I feel my way, through the slowest heaving night. Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense. I reach through the border fence. Come down, come talk to me.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And in this moment, I need to be needed. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. 'Cause I love to be loved. I love to be loved. I love to be loved. Yes, I love to be loved.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm scared of swimming in the sea, Dark shapes moving under me. Every fear I swallow makes me small. Inconsequential things occur, Alarms are triggered, Memories stir. It's not the way it has to be.”
Peter Gabriel (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too often today people are ready to tell us: "This is not possible, that is not possible." I say: whatever the true interest of our country calls for is always possible. We have nothing to fear but our own doubts.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool (10 October 1968), quoted in The Times (11 October 1968), p. 4
“As I watch and listen to the voices that are raised to persuade electors to surrender their own birthright because they fear their fellow subjects, I think I discern ahead the shape of a Conservative Party that is the party of a class, and not of a nation – and thus doomed to extinction.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (12 May 1975), quoted in Robert Shepherd, Enoch Powell (1997), p. 464
“The TUC are about as desirous of providing an alternative government to the Crown in Parliament as the Chiefs of Staff... The fear of domination by trade union power is among the most divisive and the most spurious.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Eastbourne (2 June 1978), quoted in The Times (3 June 1978), p. 2
“In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers. ~ 3”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.”
Jonah Goldberg (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 8, 2004)
“Take the two leading liberal columnists at the New York Times, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman. As we all know, one's a whining self-parody of a hysterical liberal who lets feminine emotion and fear defeat reason and fact in almost every column. The other used to date Michael Douglas.”
Jonah Goldberg (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (November 8, 2004)
“I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. If I saw wine, no matter at what season, Before I drank it, my heart was already glad. But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get. And always I fear that when I am quite old The strongest liquor will leave me comfortless.”
Bai Juyi (772–846) said by 846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then I fell sick, I was delirious, driven mad by fear, they said at the hospital. Maybe so. The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vast number of titles which are published each year—all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.”
Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City (March 8, 1967), reported in The New York Times (March 9, 1967), p. 42.
“In whatever state of knowledge we may conceive man to be placed, his progress towards a yet higher state need never fear a check, but must continue till the last existence of society.”
John Herschel (1792–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source