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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.