Fear Quotes

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

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"Fear conquered becomes the foundation of courage."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"The fear of the abyss is ultimately the fear of absolute freedom."
Bataille, Georges
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"The individual is rendered powerless by the machinery of modern life."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Fear binds society together more effectively than love."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Fear is what those in power cultivate to maintain control."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Fear is the primary tool of social control."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Fear of the new often masks deeper fears about losing familiar forms of domination."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Fear makes us cling to what we know, even when it destroys us."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Fear production maintains the apparatus of control"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Fear is the primary mechanism through which control operates"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Fear is the weapon of those who wish to maintain the status quo."
Lukács, György
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"Anxiety is the only affect that doesn't deceive."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Anxiety signals the encounter with the real."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Fear itself becomes an instrument of domination when it prevents imagination."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Fear is only an obstacle if we let it be."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Fear is only real if we make it real through repetition."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Anxiety is not a response to an object; it is a response to the Other."
Lacan, Jacques
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"To survive in this system requires becoming complicit with it."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Anxiety is not without an object; it is objectless."
Lacan, Jacques
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"Fear dissolves when we stop representing it and start experimenting with it."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Anguish is the dizziness of freedom"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Man is in anguish because he discovers that he is condemned to be free"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does is a civilization that is afraid."
Foucault, Michel
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"Anguish is the feeling of freedom."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Fear is not weakness; it is a form of intelligence."
Foucault, Michel
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"Fear is often the fear of losing the face we have constructed."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Anguish is the dizziness of freedom when we realize we are responsible for all we do."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Fear is the enemy of truth."
Popper, Karl
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"Fear teaches us what we truly value."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Fear is often the voice of our deepest convictions."
Ayer, Alfred Jules