It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.
Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?
We can't live in a place of fear.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
You can't underestimate the power of fear.
There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely. " President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. " The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared. " That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear. " (D&C 38:30)
A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.