It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. – Aung San Suu Kyi
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. – Anton Chekhov
Realists do not fear the results of their study. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. – Simone Weil
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. – Stendhal
To good and true love fear is forever affixed. – Francois Rabelais
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. – Amelia Barr
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. – Nicolaus Copernicus
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. – Alexander Pope
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. – Sophocles
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. – Corrie Ten Boom
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. – Henry Miller
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. – Mel Brooks
Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted. – Andrew Jackson
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – Thomas Huxley
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. – Thomas Huxley
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. – Horace Mann
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. – Christopher Columbus
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. – Elizabeth I
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley
