Emotions

"It was stupid to feel fear. Fear was nothing but the body’s involuntary response to perceived threats. Fear increased heartbeat, respiration, and perspiration; fear clouded the mind and paralyzed the limbs, and I’m going to die wasn’t subject to logical arguments about its counterproductivity."

"The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear."

"Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do."

"They are the driven crowds that makes the army of the authoritarian overlord; they are the stuffing of conservatism ... mediocrity is their god. They fear the stranger, they fear the new idea; they are afraid to live, and scared to die."

"The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience."

"The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action."

"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear."

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"I saw the white of fear in America’s eyes. We don’t fear the way we should fear. Our sense of danger should be at the height of our abuse."

"I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom."

"The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak."

"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

"Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand."

"The second fear is the 'battlefield fear.' This is the concrete, clear and present fear in face of a life-threatening situation. To get shot, to get maimed by a grenade or to step on a mine. Every soldier has a different method to manage this fear. I used to lie to muyself that the situation was much better than it looked, that the enemy wasn't that close, the shots were not aimed at me and the sound behind the bush was an animal and not an enemy soldier. My auto-suggestion method worked out fine for me. I also invented 'mantras' to calm myself down. One of them went like: "Today is a good day to die. But not for me. Not today!" Of course, endlessly repeating that you are not dying today, won't increase your chances to survive, but you can fool yourself into believing that it does. It worked and I calmed down. Other soldiers were using other methods, a lot of them were praying, others sang songs and some soldiers overcame their fear through shouting out loud or cursing. I lied to myself or repeated my mantras. Whatever works for you is fine. The third type of fear, however, is the worst. It's not only related to combat, but all of us will experience it one day. It's the fear of imminent death. That you won't be there anymore. In combat, this happens when you are in a really hopeless situation. This fear is the worst feeling I have ever experienced, almost like if somebody pushes you from a cliff and you have inly seconds to live. You feel completely alone. In the end, there is nothing you can do to overcome this fear. While other fears can be managed, you cannot train or prepare for your last moment on earth."

"Every time you go into battle, you are scared shitless. The panic will rise inside of you and you have to develop a technique to keep it down. The trick is to keep your fears under control. First, you have to know your fears. There are several kinds of fear a combat soldier has to deal with: First of all, there is a 'deployment or mission fear.' This starts the day when you get your orders to go into combat. It's like a fist in the stomach. From this day on, until you come back home to safety you will feel this fear. Sometimes it's just a gloomy feeling, the certainty that you are doomed and sometimes, it makes you wake up in the morning with thoughts like: "Fuck! What have I done?!" This fear is the easiest to control. Keep busy, avoid moments of lineliness and stay focused on the task at hand. Fortunately, as soon as a soldier gets his or her marching orders, life becomes very busy and there isn't much time to start with deep thinking, anyway."

"Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days."

"Fear is the product of ignorance, and in its initial stages it is not the product of wrong thinking. It is basically instinctual, and is found dominating in the non-mental animal kingdom, as well as in the human kingdom... But in the human, its power is increased potently through the powers of the mind, and through memory of past pain and grievance, and through anticipation of those we foresee, the power of fear is enormously aggravated by the thoughtform we ourselves have built of our own individual fears and phobias. This thoughtform grows in power as we pay attention to it, for "energy follows thought", till we become dominated by it."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

"The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving it, was not at all like the fear I heard when one of us was ill or had fallen down the stairs or strayed too far from the house. It was another fear, a fear that the child, in challenging the white world’s assumptions, was putting himself in the path of destruction."

"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

":Jean-Luc Picard: No! Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks."

":Renée Picard:: Sometimes, fear is a friendly reminder you're not ready for something."

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

"Fear, imposed from the top down- from shareholder to senior executive, senior executive to executive, and so on down the chain right to the maximally squeezed Manpower temp- is the dominant trope in the post-Reagan corporate culture. One of the simplest ways to instill this fear is to make employees acutely aware that their jobs are never safe."

"From remote times people have been accustomed to fear so-called death. They were always intimidated by hell, and at the same time were not told about the meaning of perfectment. One cannot ask people to be brave if they do not know why they are on Earth, and where they will be directed when liberated. We entrust Our co-workers to repeat as much as they can to people about the great Eternity and the continuity of life... We know what devastation fear produces in the human organism. Earthly physicians should distinguish a special kind of sickness caused by fear... Let them understand how harmful is fear."

"Fear is the foundation of most governments."

"Oderint dum metuant."

"Fear does not prevent death, but it prevents life. If you are afraid, life has no value. If you die, everything dies.~~ December 18, 2024"

"Merely pointing to the fact that some people have a lot more than others is less compelling as a critique; it invites the response “So what? Those who have more aren’t hurting anybody; you’re just appealing to envy.” By contrast, being able to show that those who enjoy a higher socioeconomic status have to a considerable extent achieved and maintained that status by forcibly expropriating and oppressing the less affluent provides for a far more effective indictment."

"Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies."

"Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways."

"Clockwerk, he was consumed with jealousy for the Cooper clan's thieving reputation. Is it inappropriate to refer to him as a monster? No, not at all. What kind of person lives for hundreds of years with the sole intention of wiping out a rival's family line? Imagine the hatred feeding that first decision to replace his mortal body with soulless machinery. Ultimately, it did the trick. Clockwerk lived on."

"O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on."

"The general's disdain'd By him one step below; he by the next; That next by him beneath; so every step, Exampled by the first pace that is sick Of his superior, grows to an envious fever Of pale and bloodless emulation."

"We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves; And spend our flatteries, to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again, With poisonous spite and envy."

"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious."

"No metal can, No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy."

"Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves: And therefore are they very dangerous."

"In seeking tales and informations Against this man, whose honesty the devil And his disciples only envy at, Ye blew the fire that burns ye."

"It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers."

"L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera, E si dilegua come agnel per fascino."

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

"Envy is more implacable than hatred."

"Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing."

"Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave."

"Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true."

"It is true, indeed, of all just and good men, that they are praised more after they have left the world than before, since envy does not long survive them, and some even see it die before them."