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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.