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Quotes About Fear

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.
~ Ezra Klein
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
~ F. H. Bradley
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
~ Francis Beaumont
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
~ Gloria Steinem
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
~ Aristotle
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
~ Hugh Shelton
Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.
~ Aaron Hill
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
~ Albert Schweitzer
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
~ Alix Kates Shulman
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.
~ Allan Nairn
Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.
~ Andrew Davidson
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
~ Andrew Potter
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
~ Aristotle
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
~ Ben Jonson
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
~ Bertrand Russell
Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.
~ Chanakya
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
~ Charles Churchill
For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.
~ Chuck Lorre
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
~ Dante Alighieri
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer