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Fear

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – Dan Savage

In the ring, I never really knew fear. – Rocky Marciano

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. – Jean Baudrillard

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. – Marilyn French

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes. – Maggie Kuhn

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. – Dan Rather

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. – David Mamet

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. – Diane Abbott

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. – Diane Abbott

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. – Susan Sontag

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. – Kevin Mitnick

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. – Steven Brust

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation. – Eliot Spitzer

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion. – Tony Snow

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear. – Ashley Tisdale

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. – Theodore Bikel

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. – Nicolaus Copernicus