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" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

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" I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end... The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer. "

Guillermo del Toro

" There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. "

" Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. "

" I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. "

" I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world. "

" I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear. "

" The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination. "

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

" Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. "

Thomas J. Watson

" The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. "

" It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. "

" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "

" There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. "

" Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. "

Bertrand Russell

" Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. "

James A. Baldwin

" Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. "

" A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. "

Allegra Versace

" Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. "

" He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. "

Publilius Syrus

" He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. "

William Hazlitt

" Fear God and work hard. "

David Livingstone

" There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. "

Jane Welsh Carlyle

" What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. "

" Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. "

Anna Deavere Smith

" While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. "

" Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. "