When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
People are very afraid. In my country, you had a corrupt party who sabotaged an amazing candidate Bernie Sanders who was stronger than the other. Had Sanders faced Trump even more young people - from black millennials to the gay and lesbian community - would have voted because he represented them at his core. Fear drove the American vote, because if you're choosing from two devils like Hillary and Trump then you're more likely to end up picking the one who is cooler and makes you laugh.
He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.
To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.
Fear is priceless education.
It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.
We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired and there were days when we forgot who we were. We made it. And we must thank the stars for this. And the birds for their beautiful songs. And the strangers who were careful to smile. We made it.
You either have faith or fear, not both.
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear. Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive