Voltaire Quotes About Fear

Quotes about: Fear

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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  Religious, Fear, Sleep

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

• The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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  Honesty, Fear, Integrity

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

• Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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  Fear, Punishment, Prison

• Fear could never make virtue.

  Voltaire

  Fear, Virtue

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.122

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