Quote by Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce fer

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. – Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. – Bertrand Russell

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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

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You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down its not a legitimate regime, it doesnt represent the will of the people, its kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. – Hillary Clinton

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God. – Proverb

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