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Nothing
To Fear
Only
in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive
and sole function of self-defense and the many interests
of which it is the guardian become subordinate to
that.
-- Jane
Addams
Better
beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear
-- Aesop
Fear
is a natural and important response for survival.
But fear can also become a harmful emotion when
it causes us to act irrationally. When we allow
fear to control our lives, we see things differently,
we're more cautious and more timid, or we overreact
to situations in ways that can be harmful to ourselves
and others.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
The
world is a dangerous place. But if we chose not
to let fear control our lives, and instead stood
up and worked together to change the way things
are, this would be a much better world for everyone.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
"There
is no trust more sacred than the one the world
holds with children. There is no duty more important
than ensuring that their rights are respected,
that their welfare is protected, that their lives
are free from fear and want and that they can
grow up in peace."
-- Kofi
Annan
"...women
themselves have the right to live in dignity,
in freedom from want and freedom from fear."
-- Kofi
Annan
"No
passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear."
-- Edmund Burke
Aim
for success, not perfection. Never give up your right
to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to
learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember
that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting
your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human
can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive
person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns
Nuclear
weapons play on our deepest fears and pander to our
darkest instincts. They corrode our sense of humanity,
numb our capacity for moral outrage, and make thinkable
the unimaginable. They prey on democracies and totalitarian
societies alike, shrinking the norms of civilized
behavior and dimming the prospects for escaping the
savagery so powerfully imprinted on our genetic code.
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces
1991-1994
“Do
the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that
is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to
conquer fear.”
-- Dale Carnegie
"I
thought it was a good time to have those debates
again about government using fear to erode away
civil liberties, which happens every 30 to 40 years"
-- George
Clooney
In
order to succeed, your desire for success should
be greater than your fear of failure.
-- Bill
Cosby
We
discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever;
that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides,
the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also
worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something
more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and
that is to live in fear.
-- Eve Curie, French author
Think
first of the action that is right to take, think later
about coping with one's fears.
-- Barbara
Deming
*
"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign.
It does not flourish where there is ignorance and
a lack of education and information. Repression, injustice
and exploitation are inimical with peace. Peace is
gravely threatened by inter-group fear and envy and
by the unleashing of unrealistic expectations. Racial,
class and religious intolerance and prejudice are
its mortal enemies."
-- Frederik
W. de Klerk
“While
we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase
to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion
as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should
awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.”
-- Dorothea
Dix
Fear
defeats more people than any other one thing in the
world.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Do
not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may
never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
Do
not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue
to reach out.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
*
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole
philosophy of human rights.
-- Dag
Hammarskjold
“In
order to rally people, governments need enemies.
They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally
behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy,
they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
Though
we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within
us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead
nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion,
understanding, and loving kindness.
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
"We
often think of peace as the absence of war; that if
the powerful countries would reduce their arsenals,
we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the
weapons, we see our own minds - our prejudices, fears,
and ignorance. Even if we transported all the bombs
to the moon, the roots of war and the reasons for
bombs would still be here, in our hearts and minds,
and sooner or later we would make new bombs. Seek
to become more aware of what causes anger and separation,
and what overcomes them. Root out the violence in
your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully."
--
Thich
Nhat Hanh
Peace
is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state
in which no people of any country, in fact no group
of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
-- Poul
Hartling
The
greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually
fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard
The
way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in
something that you forget to be afraid.
-- Lady Bird Johnson
"But
this old woman's seen troubled times before
When
the people rose up to shine a light once more
So
in spite of her fears she’d play her part again
Band
together with young and old, women and men.”
—
Lucy Kaplansky
"With
our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring,
planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality
with the natural world, that is not primitive (though
based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be
possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape
without violation. With the least violation."
~ Janet Kauffman
*
"
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never
fear to negotiate
-- John
F. Kennedy
*
"
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never
fear to negotiate
-- John
F. Kennedy
"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures
of power, indescribably complicated problems to
solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity altogether
and succumb to fear and impotence in the presence
of the weapons we have ourselves created, it is
as possible and as urgent to put an end to war and
violence between nations as it is to put an end
to poverty and racial injustice."
-- Martin
Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
If
we could raise one generation with unconditional love,
there would be no Hitlers…Mankind's greatest gift, also
its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can
make our choices built from love or from fear.
--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Fear
is not the natural state of civilized man.
-- Aung
San Suu Kyi
*
The
only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it.
-- Avril
Lavigne
*
"If
the world is to be healed through human efforts,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people
whose love for this life is even greater than their
fear. People who can open to the web of life that
called us into being".
--
Joanna
Macy
"If
Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will
be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
-- James
Madison
*
As
we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
-- Nelson
Mandela
"It
seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes,
to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn
enough from blunders to correct them eventually."
-- Abraham Maslow
"Fear
less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,
say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are
yours."
--Jean Baptiste Moliere
*
You survive by having your fear compass calibrated
correctly. Our compass is off now because we're
being told to be afraid of everything. The things
that we're frightened of, or told to be frightened
of, are not necessarily the things that we need
to fear.
-- Michael
Moore
*
I
want us all to face our fears and stop behaving
like our goal in life is to merely survive.
-- Michael
Moore
I
want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our
goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is for
wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle
or on a desert island. You are not stranded. You own the
store....You deserve better.
-- Michael
Moore
*
We
must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will
not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if
we remember that we are not descended from fearful
men, not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes which were, for
the moment, unpopular.
--
Edward
R. Murrow
"We
will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be
driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep
in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not
descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to
write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which
were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage
and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for
the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic
to abdicate his responsibility."
-- Edward
R. Murrow
"Avoidance
of uncomfortable feelings because you are afraid
of them is an irrational fear that can be challenged.
Feelings, even scary ones, can be felt, given a
name and then released. One man spoke of dealing
with his internal demons that he knew were not real
and said, “I’m pacing back and forth in front of
my wall of fear. I’ve got to walk through that door.
Yet I know when I reach out and walk through the
door of fear, things can only get better. That door
of fear is often only a phantom one anyway so go
ahead and face it, take a deep breath for courage
and then walk right through it. You won’t bump your
head on it! I promise!"
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"Avoidance
of uncomfortable feelings because you are afraid
of them is an irrational fear that can be challenged.
Feelings, even scary ones, can be felt, given a
name and then released. "
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
“But
regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an
answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question
you will never have the answer to.” -- Trevor Noah
It
seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace
- fear and selfishness.
-- Katherine Paterson
We
are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing
to the achievement of the goal of the abolition
of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident
that we shall succeed in this great task; that the
world community will thereby be freed not only from
the suffering caused by war but also through the
better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries
of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from
hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that
we shall in the course of time be enabled to build
a world characterized by economic, political, and
social justice for all human beings and a culture
worthy of man's intelligence.
-- Linus
Pauling
"Be
a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead
of a discordant note. The medicine this sick world
needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love,
and fear by faith that love will prevail." -- Peace
Pilgrim
Misunderstanding
arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains
the greatest enemy of peace.
-- Lester
B. Pearson
Consult
not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about
your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what is still possible for you to do.
-- Pope John XXIII
Once
you inject fear into a society of people, they become
more and more afraid because they don’t cross over
the neighbourhoods and the only information they get
about other people is through the media.
-- Sister
Helen Prejean
"I
believe that love, kindness, compassion, tolerance, and
peace can be implanted in the psyche of man only when
fear, paranormal illusion and ignorance are removed. We
can then shift our attention more to matters of peace,
rather than to matters of war."
-- Peter Retzinger
"Peace
is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not
the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent
result of violent repression. Peace is the generous,
tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right
and it is duty."
-- Oscar
Romero
You
gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear
in the face…You must do the thing you think you
cannot do.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
"I
believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing
the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing
them until he gets a record of successful experience
behind him."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
We
have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that
the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can
gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion
or mistrust or with fear.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
"There
is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite
matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up
fear and hatred among the population." -- Paul
Rusesabagina
"Fear
is the main source of superstition, and one of the
main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the
beginning of wisdom." -- Bertrand
Russell
Collective
fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce
ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members
of the herd. -- Bertrand
Russell
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others
and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us,
and from motives of policy are silent when we
should speak, the divine floods of light and life
no longer flow into our souls
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Keep
your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with
others.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage,
it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome
danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing
to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good;
that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond
our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
-- Dorothy Thompson
Fear
grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around,
turn on the light.
-- Dorothy Thompson
There
is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find
out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes
of happenings.
-- Dorothy Thompson
Only
when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
-- Dorothy Thompson
When
I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times,
and to the latest.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
'Refugees
are defined as persons who are outside their country and
cannot return owing to a well-founded fear of persecution
because of their race, religion, nationality, political
opinion or membership of a particular social group.'
~ United Nations, 1951
“Take
heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who
knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look
back on.”
-- Virgil
"For
in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle;
and one faces down fears of today so that those
of tomorrow might be engaged.
~Alice
Walker
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear
and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in
our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our
purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it,
to experience love in ourselves and others, is the
meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things.
Meaning lies in us.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
Love
is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear
and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in
our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our
purpose on earth.
-- Marianne
Williamson
"Chinese
and Tibetan dissidents are either locked up in prison,
forced into hiding, or silenced by fear of police
retaliation against their families. All the happiness
about China's economic growth has made many Americans
forget that police clubs and guns and the Laogai
system keep the Communist Party in power. Moreover,
it is still little recognized how American resources
help to sustain that power through trade, investments,
and the transfer of technology... It is only when
the Laogai is abolished in China that real change
will come about."
-- Harry
Wu
Superstition
is born of ignorance and fear, and thrives the most when
reason is asleep.
-- Zarathushtra
*
The
strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability
to paralyze the functioning of a complex social
structure-these remain potent weapons against the
most fearsome state or corporate power.
-- Howard
Zinn
