fear - quotes

H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken, 1880-1956

was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt, 1882-1945

was a 32nd president of US

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Helen (Adams) Keller, 1880-1968

was an US blind and deaf educator

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Cyril (Vernon) Connolly, 1903-1974

was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt, 1882-1945

was a 32nd president of US

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

( First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Cyril (Vernon) Connolly, 1903-1974

was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.