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Quotes About Fear

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
~ Mark Twain
There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.
~ Doris "Granny D" Haddock
I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.
~ Bob Dylan
If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!
~ Bill Clinton
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
~ Tariq Ramadan
If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.
~ Amanda Palmer
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
~ George Orwell, 1984
People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.
~ Vitali Klitschko
The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.
~ Tom Lehrer
Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Public Speaking is very easy.
~ Dan Quayle
The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.
~ Jill Stein
All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.
~ John Adams
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
~ John Avlon
We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
~ George W. Bush
Monsters always make more trouble before they die.
~ Melinda Gebbie
You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.
~ Richard Nixon
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
~ Pat Summitt
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
~ Averroes
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
~ Shimon Peres
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
~ Tim Ferriss
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf