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Quotes About Fear

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
~ Plutarch
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
~ William Shakespeare
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
~ Max Brooks
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
~ William Shakespeare
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
~ Cosmo Gordon Lang
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
~ Ezra Pound
I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.
~ Steve Ignorant
War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.
~ Cornelia Meigs
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
~ Barbara Boxer
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
~ Erica Jong
I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
~ William Manchester
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
~ William Thomas Cummings
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
~ Ken Mehlman
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
~ Ram Dass
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
~ Julien Benda
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
~ Katherine Paterson
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.
~ Kevin Hearne
War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.
~ Malcolm X
The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.
~ Maude Royden
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
~ Steven Spielberg