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Quotes About Fear

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
~ Sam Harris
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
~ Gijs de Vries
Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
~ H. L. Mencken
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
~ Will Durant
...risk is one of the keys that move you from fear to freedom.
~ Rhonda Britten
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
~ Unknown
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
~ Natasha Lyonne
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.
~ Rachel Caine
In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.
~ Susannah Constantine
Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.
~ Brendon Burchard
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.
~ James Lee Burke
The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Spy
Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believethey love liberty.
~ W.H. Auden
Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism".
~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
~ Coretta Scott King
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.
~ Ben E. King
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
~ Michael Heseltine
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
~ Henrik Ibsen