Fear Quotes - Page 35

• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.460, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

  Veronica Rossi

  Comfort, No Fear, Ifs

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• You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Honesty, Thinking, People

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• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  Jack Cade

  Color, Law, Favors

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• The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

  Guy Finley

  Ends, Seeing

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• Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  Adolf Hitler

  Thinking, People, Atheism

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• When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

  Edward Abbey

  Common Sense, Atheism, Opaque

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheism, Outsiders, Fantasy

  Isaac Asimov (1989). “The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays”

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• Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

  George Orwell

  Effectiveness, Challenges, Atheism

  George Orwell (1987). “Animal farm: a fairy story”, Harvill Secker

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• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

  Gilbert Highet

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

  Lucretius

  Space, People, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

  Lucretius

  Atheism, Rage, Creation

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Hands, Parent

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, People, Atheism

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• To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

  Denis Diderot

  Pain, Ignorance, Passion

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• Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Self, Views

  "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.

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• There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Powerful, Afterlife

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheism, Environment, Rage

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.31, Routledge

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Historical, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• ... reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Atheism, Rage, Reason

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

  Victor J. Stenger

  People, Atheism, Want

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• No one holds command over me.
  No Man. No God.
  No King. No Prince.
  What is a claim of age?
  For ones who are immortal
  What is a claim of power?
  For ones who defy death
  Call your damnable hunt.
  And we shall see
  Whom I drag screaming to hell with me.

  Unknown

  Men, Atheism, Age

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• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

  Charlton Heston

  Believe, Heart, Drunk

  "Truth And Consequences". Speech to the Yale University Political Union, www.varmintal.com. April 16, 1999.

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