Fear Quotes – Reflections on Anxiety and Uncertainty

"Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure."

Bryan Adams

"The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think."

David Icke

"Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders."

Denis Diderot

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

Alan Kay

"The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock."

Chris Hedges

"The fear of freedom is the fear of assuming responsibility."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"The easiest way to grab people’s attention is to make them frightened. This is how we are built really as animals. So if you want to distract the public from issues like government corruption or like deteriorating health care system or deteriorating education system, the best thing is to find an external enemy that threatens the survival of the nation and immediately that gets all the attention and people forget about the other things"

Yuval Noah Harari

"When you're watching television, you're watching the news, you're being pumped full of fear. there's floods. There's AIDS. There's murder. Cut to commercial. Buy the Acura. Buy Colgate. If you have bad breath, they're not going to talk to you. If you have pimples, that girl isn't going to fuck you. It's just a campaign of fear and consumption. That's what I think it's based on. This whole idea of 'keep everyone afraid and they'll consume"

Marilyn Manson

"The consequences of fear can be far greater than those caused by the virus itself."

Jens Spahn

"If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny."

Elon Musk

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men."

Der blutige Pfad Gottes (Filmzitat)

"Fear of the virus—fear of getting sick, fear of dying—is the most effective distraction one can politically set in motion: to intimidate people and focus them on that fear so completely that, in the end, you can basically do whatever you want with us."

Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz

"Rage, my dear young friend, is considered the small, uncontrolled sister of anger. Anger is the shaping force of human civil society."

Thomas von Aquin

"If terrorism is based on creating fear—the greatest terrorism is media."

Simen Valom

"All dictatorships feed on the fear of their subjects."

Richard von Weizsäcker

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

Ronald Reagan

"Spreading fear seems to have become a common means of advancing political interests."

Wolfgang Kubicki

"In der Tat wird es immer offensichtlicher, dass nicht Hungersnöte, nicht Erdbeben, nicht Mikroben, nicht Krebs, sondern der Mensch selbst die größte Gefahr für den Menschen darstellt, und zwar aus dem einfachen Grund, dass es keinen angemessenen Schutz gegen psychische Epidemien gibt, die unendlich viel verheerender sind als die schlimmsten Naturkatastrophen"

Carl Gustav Jung