Quotes About Fear

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear, Sin and Doubt

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.

I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

When your identity switch from the personal identity to the eternal self, no fear of death or karmic bondage arise in you.

With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

I don't care if they respect me so long as they fear me.

Respect all. Fear none.

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Brutality creates respect.