Quotes About Fear

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.

How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Power and fear, he said. The tools of statecraft.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.

Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.

Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!"we say. Then Changer comes

What's a gom jabbar?

The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Pride overcame Paul's fear. You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal? he demanded. Let us say I suggest you may be human, she said. Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me.

Não terei medo. O medo mata a mente. O medo é a pequena morte que leva à aniquilação total. Enfrentarei meu medo. Permitirei que passe por cima e através de mim. E, quando tiver passado, voltarei o olho interior para ver seu rastro. Onde o medo não estiver mais, nada haverá. Somente eu restarei.

Humans have a tendency to complain whenever the old must give way to the new. But change is the natural way of the universe, and we must learn to embrace it rather than fear it. The very process of transformation and adaptation strengthens the species.

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.

It's a subtle and powerful thing, prescience. The future becomes now. To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. If you try to interpret what you see for the blind, you tend to forget that the blind possess an inherent movement conditioned by their blindness. They are like a monstrous machine moving along its own path. They have their own momentum, their own fixations. I fear the blind, Stil. I fear them. They can so easily crush anything in their path.

He doesn't appear much, does he—one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It

I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?

No conoceréis al miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Sólo estaré yo.