To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and wom...
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive ...
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
