Insecurity And Fear Quotes - Page 2

• To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

  Alan Watts

  Purple, Feelings, Insecurity

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• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  Radhanath Swami

  Believe, Two, Ego

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• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Self Confidence, Insecurity, Viruses

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Ideas, Insecurity

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• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  Lauryn Hill

  Insecurity, Black, Western Culture

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Insecurity, Want

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• I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

  Timothy Miller

  Insecurity, Atmosphere, Function

  Source: screenrant.com

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• To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

  Jann Wenner

  Moving, Ipads, Insanity

  "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Insecurity, Doe, Over It

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Business, Blessing, Civilization

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.4, Routledge

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• It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.

  Marlo Morgan

  Nice, Insecurity, Mutants

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