Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.

— Diane Keaton

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that…

— Anna Quindlen

“No matter how fierce the enemy seems--when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us,…

— Katy Kauffman

“Fear cripples our minds and breeds delusions”

— Meredith Duran

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…

— David Lehman

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom…

— Erich Fromm

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it,…

— Anonymous

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the…

— Gerald Epstein

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The…

— Willie Nelson

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his…

— Kirk Douglas

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into…

— Erich Fromm

the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to…

— Marah Ellis Ryan