Fear Quote by Aristotle

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the…

— Aristotle

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage, hate, and…

— Joseph Conrad

“Few things are more frightening than the thought of your god coming to life. There is no such thing as privacy between a deity…

— Ilona Andrews

Even as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by…

— John Dod

“Where there is reverence, there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear has a wider scope than…

— Jeff Wheeler

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension…

— Socrates

“His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than…

— George Orwell

In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by…

— Matthew Henry

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

— Bell Hooks