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Only
in time of fear is government thrown back to its
primitive and sole function of self-defense and
the many interests of which it is the guardian
become subordinate to that.
-- Jane Addams
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Better
beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear
-- Aesop
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"There
is no trust more sacred than the one the world
holds with children. There is no duty more
important than ensuring that their rights
are respected, that their welfare is protected,
that their lives are free from fear and want
and that they can grow up in peace."
-- Kofi Annan
"...women
themselves have the right to live in dignity,
in freedom from want and freedom from fear."
-- Kofi Annan
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"No
passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear."
-- Edmund Burke
Aim
for success, not perfection. Never give up your right
to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability
to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right
to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier
and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns
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Nuclear
weapons play on our deepest fears and pander to
our darkest instincts. They corrode our sense
of humanity, numb our capacity for moral outrage,
and make thinkable the unimaginable. They prey
on democracies and totalitarian societies alike,
shrinking the norms of civilized behavior and
dimming the prospects for escaping the savagery
so powerfully imprinted on our genetic code.
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear Forces
1991-1994 |
“Do
the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that
is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered
to conquer fear.”
-- Dale Carnegie
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"I
thought it was a good time to have those debates
again about government using fear to erode away
civil liberties, which happens every 30 to 40
years"
-- George Clooney
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In
order to succeed, your desire for success should
be greater than your fear of failure.
-- Bill Cosby
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We
discovered that peace at any price is no peace at
all. We discovered that life at any price has no value
whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges,
the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth
living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered
that there is something more hideous, more atrocious
than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
-- Eve Curie, French author
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Think
first of the action that is right to take, think
later about coping with one's fears.
-- Barbara Deming
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"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation
reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance
and a lack of education and information. Repression,
injustice and exploitation are inimical with peace.
Peace is gravely threatened by inter-group fear
and envy and by the unleashing of unrealistic
expectations. Racial, class and religious intolerance
and prejudice are its mortal enemies."
-- Frederik W.
de Klerk |
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“While
we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase
to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion
as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should
awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.”
-- Dorothea Dix |
