Quotes About Fear

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

The root of war is fear.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.