Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Fear, if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
O, how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base, uncomely things it makes men do.