“If you believe you’ve lived your life the right way, then you do not have nothing to fear.”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“In time of war, the general social condition is fertile soil for the development of hate and fear, and transference of these to minority groups is quite simple.”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“First, his personal achievement. I am not concerned here about marches and boycotts, great and important though they were, but rather about a man who struggled to conquer in himself both fear and hate, two of humanity’s most destructive and limiting emotions. I want to stress struggled and conquered…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“There are only three ways to motivate people: money, fear, and hunger.”— Matt Murray, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com
“Fear can paralyze you. Or it can fuel you. Let it do the latter, my friends. Good luck and keep at it.”— Harlan Coben, twitter.com
“Those with OCD may be very well aware that their compulsions and obsessions are irrational, but that does not make them less prone to engaging in rituals to ward off the obsessive thoughts and impulses they have.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“I was nothing at all. And when you’re nothing at all, there’s no reason to be afraid.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Samwell Tarly, John Bradley, imdb.com
“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.”— John McCain, amazon.com