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“If we succumb to pardoning these men, then we are sabotaging and undermining our own ability to act without fear or favour. We reap what we sow. We will sow a culture of coups for our children. We must therefore, uphold the Rule of Law and Justice.”
Koila Nailatikau (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not just people with a percentage of the vote who have the right to speak. All of us have the right to speak. What happened to Farage looked ugly in the rest of the country and the rest of the world. And the SNP I fear will take you down a road where grudge is everything.”
George Galloway (born 1954) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Express During an interview on Question time with Nigel Farage condemning the hostility shown by the Scottish people (14 June 2013).
“The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires.”
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deiciders.”
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, — naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life!”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I am not certain that in spite of all our modern learning and sophistication, we have actually progressed far beyond the self-oriented philosophy of the Victorians. I fear that these ideas still lurk about, showing themselves boldly and openly at times, at oth-ers skulking about in the shadows of the subconscious.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed: Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed; 'Twas red with the blood of freemen, and white with the fear of the foe, And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.”
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Flag" in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 40, no. 66 (April 1863) p. 443
“What is happening to Assange should terrify the press...The silence about the treatment of Assange is not only a betrayal of him but a betrayal of the freedom of the press itself. We will pay dearly for this complicity.... Assange is on his own. Each day is more difficult for him. This is by design. It is up to us to protest. We are his last hope, and the last hope, I fear, for a free press.”
Chris Hedges (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However distressed and disillusioned, the Indians will behave as they always have -- with the same patience, fortitude and indomitable spirit that their forefathers showed in the long night of the Girmit' -- With a mind without fear and head held high.”
Vijay R. Singh (1931–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What grace could all your worldly power bring To One whose crown of thorns has made him King, The Christ who gave His body to the flails, Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails? Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.”
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Secular Power as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 121.
“From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this… The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.”
Ali Khamenei (1939–2026) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: February 3, 2012 sermon at Friday prayers
“I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?”
Geronimo (1829–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being informed that there were authorizations to kill him while he was a prisoner in San Antonio, prior to news of further instructions to transport him to Florida, as quoted in Geronimo and the End of the Apache War…
“Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it … The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936–2023) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech in Milan, while heading a coallition which includes parties with fascist roots, as quoted in "Berlusconi praises Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day", BBC News (27 January 2013)
“Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Owing to this favor I need to have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you, because I saw that you have built and are now building extensively, and that in future also you will take care that our public and private buildings shall be worthy to go down to posterity by the side of your other splendid achievements.”
Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once again fear, and mystery, swept over me...I was infinitely far from home. The profoundest distances are never geographical...”
John Fowles (1926–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy.”
Ethan Allen (1738–1789) said by 1789 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response, refusing instructions by a timid Continental Congress to move war matériel captured from the British to a place of safe keeping until it could be returned; as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and th…
“It is probably no longer possible to achieve tenure at a major American university after giving offense to the homosexual-activist lobby. Fortunately, I don't have that sort of career issue to worry about, and can therefore speak without fear.”
Eric S. Raymond (born 1957) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reinventing Homosexuality" (17 June 2009)
“You only need fear the bees if you’ve broken the law.” That familiar phrase was used to justify every encroachment on citizens’ liberty.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am already late, I fear. What time is it?” “Time? Why the present, of course.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I felt sorry for him at that moment. He only wanted what every man wanted—freedom from fear, a chance to raise children with a reasonable certainty that they would be allowed to do the same, a chance to look forward to the future without the knowledge that any plans made might be wrecked forever by some sudden act of violence.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.”
Alan Greenspan (1926–2026) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Assault on Integrity 1963
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Subcontact : Slap the Face of Fear and Wake Up Your Subconscious (2001) by Dian Benson, p. 149
“Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ravens and crows. Rats. Mists and clouds. Insects and corruption. Strange events and odd occurences. The ordinary twisted and strange. Wonders. The dead are beginning to walk and some see them. Others do not, but more and more, we all fear the night. These have been our days. They rain upon us beneath a dead sky, crushing us with their fury, until as one, we beg, "Let it begin.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) first seen 1000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal of the Unknown Scholar, entry for the Feast of Freia, 1000 NE
“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.”
Ingrid Newkirk (born 1949) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals", Huffington Post, 17 July 2009.
“I don't think I'd be very good at what you'd call an ordinary job. I think I might be an artist, mixed media. And that is still something I'm interested in pursuing at some point, but I have this fear of taking my eye off the ball, and get distracted from that acting thing.”
Gillian Anderson (born 1968) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian "Gillian Anderson webchat – as it happened" (February 6, 2015)
“There are other people whose fear is if you bring down South Africa there will be a communist regime takeover - and that's a risk I'm prepared to see. I would much rather see South Africa under a communist regime than under the present one if that's the choice I'm faced with.”
Ken Livingstone (born 1945) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Times (11 December 1985, as quoted by Bernard Levin).
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
“You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.”
Kate Winslet (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe very strongly that guns are instruments of death. That's all they're used for; there's no purpose for them other than to kill. I think you have to understand that in order to respect them. I have no fear of my teenage son handling weapons, because he has that respect.”
Jesse Ventura (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.”
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.”
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) said by 1506 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.”
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) said by 1506 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Robert E. Sherwood (1946)
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You and he were adversaries, but you were allied in a determination that the world should not be blown up. The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men as by the little ones. While big men know the need for self-control and restraint, little men are sometimes moved more by fear and pride.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Nikita Khrushchev after JFK assassination, as quoted in One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (2009) by Michael Dobbs.
“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is a slave.” His soul, however, may be that of a freeman. “He is a slave.” But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But he has no fear; unconquered he looks down from a lofty height upon his sufferings.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And this is the vote which [Cato] casts concerning them both: “If Caesar wins, I slay myself; if Pompey, I go into exile.” What was there for a man to fear who, whether in defeat or in victory, had assigned to himself a doom which might have been assigned to him by his enemies in their utmost rage? So he died by his own decision.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source