Quotes About Fear

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.