Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. "

Related Quotes:

" There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fear

Tell

Mind

" People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. "

" To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special. "

" It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fate

Him

Man

" I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. "

" There is nothing in this world that I fear to say. "

" Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. "

" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "

" A life lived in fear is a life half lived. "

" Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. "

" There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. "

" Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us. "

" When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. "

" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

" Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. "

" Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. "

" So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run. "

" You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. "

" God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally. "

" I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. "

" If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

End

Fear

Good

" I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. "

" I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. "

" Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. "

" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

Frank Ocean

" You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' "

" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "

" Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. "

" Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. "

" We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. "