Quotes About Fear

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.