#fear

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. ↗

— Sophocles

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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. ↗

— Sophocles

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To him who is in fear everything rustles. ↗

— Sophocles

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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away. ↗

— Peter Sotos

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The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both. ↗

— Martin Frost

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I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear. ↗

— Regina Spektor

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