Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

16356 quotes

B
"Fear is false evidence appearing real."
Barbara Smith
b
"The fear of abandonment often keeps us from authentic connection"
bell hooks
A
"Fear is a tool used to maintain oppression."
Angela Davis
A
"Fear is a tool of oppression."
Angela Davis
B
"Women have been conditioned to fear their own power and capability."
Betty Friedan
B
"Women have been taught to fear success and their own capabilities."
Betty Friedan
A
"Fear is the tool that oppressive systems use to keep people in line."
Angela Davis
N
"Fear is the tool used to keep us compliant."
Naomi Klein
B
"Fear is the first weapon used against the powerless."
Barbara Smith
B
"Fear is the currency of control."
Barbara Smith
A
"I keep saying that the day we stop being afraid is the day we will be free."
Arundhati Roy
B
"The fear of being silenced has already silenced too many; speak anyway."
Barbara Smith
"Fear of the unknown should not paralyze us; it should motivate us to learn more."
Bill McKibben
"We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired."
Audre Lorde
"Fear is not something to be done away with, but something to be used, to be altered."
Audre Lorde
"The biggest threat to food security is the loss of agricultural biodiversity."
Vandana Shiva
A
"Fear can be either a prison or a teacher, depending on how we respond to it."
Angela Davis
A
"Fear loses power when it is named, examined, and collectively confronted."
Angela Davis
N
"Fear is the tool used to make us accept what we would never choose in calmer moments."
Naomi Klein
N
"What we really fear is not loss, but our own power to change things."
Naomi Klein
A
"We have been taught to fear the wrong things."
Arundhati Roy
A
"Your fear reveals what you truly value."
Arundhati Roy
A
"Fear is just the absence of understanding."
Arundhati Roy
"Fear of climate change should transform into action."
Bill McKibben
N
"Fear is the tool used to keep us compliant and disconnected."
Naomi Klein
N
"We are taught to fear each other, but we should fear the systems that divide us."
Naomi Klein
"Fear is the enemy of clear thinking about the future."
Bill McKibben
"We have all been brought up to fear insanity slightly, and to madness not at all."
Audre Lorde
"The fear of being powerless is often what stops us from attempting to use our power at all."
Audre Lorde
A
"Fear is the most powerful thing in the world and it's what makes people do terrible things."
Arundhati Roy