Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear is often the product of ignorance"
Edward Said
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"Fear is the absence of understanding; education dispels it."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Fear is the tool of the oppressor; courage is the tool of the free."
Aimé Césaire
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"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
Wangari Maathai
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"Fear is the teacher that reveals where we must grow."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Fear is often our most honest emotion."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Fear is a teacher if we listen to its wisdom; it shows us what we must overcome."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Fear is the price we pay for the illusion of security."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Fear is the beginning of understanding."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Fear is an invitation to explore what lies beyond convention."
Félix Guattari
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"Fear is the absence of understanding."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Fear dissolves in the face of action."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Fear is the price of freedom, not its negation."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Fear keeps us alive; the absence of fear is madness."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Fear is the acknowledgment of our finitude."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Fear is the most fundamental control mechanism of late capitalism"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Fear teaches us what we truly value in a way that reflection cannot."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The specter of the other haunts all forms of presence and certainty."
Jacques Derrida
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"Fear is just ideology that hasn't yet been named."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Fear is not the opposite of courage but its necessary counterpart."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The monster is what we call what we cannot assimilate."
Jacques Derrida
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"Fear is the primary tool of administration; all other methods merely elaborate it."
Max Horkheimer
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"The most important thing in the world is to free yourself from fear."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Fear is the foundation of all political order."
Carl Schmitt
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"Fear is the great paralyzer of human action."
Isaiah Berlin
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"We fear what we do not understand, and understanding requires effort we are often unwilling to make."
Isaiah Berlin
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"The greatest danger lies not in the forces we consciously oppose, but in the unconscious assumptions we share."
Isaiah Berlin
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"Fear of the future is reasonable; what is unreasonable is pretending certainty."
Max Horkheimer
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"Fear teaches more than certainty ever could."
Max Horkheimer
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"Evil rarely announces itself; it creeps in through the door left open by our indifference."
Hannah Arendt