#fear

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#friends #i #makes #more #people

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #die #facing #fathers #fearful

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#loved #more #much #secure #than

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#conditioning #direct #feared #gained #i

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

#despair #fears #fell #human #human soul