Feared Quotes
440 quotes by 358 authors
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I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
— David O. Selznick
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During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying…
— Carol Tavris
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Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
— Joey Skaggs
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Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick…
— Nell Carter
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Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state,…
— Pope Gregory XVI
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
— Laozi
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Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
— Lee Kuan Yew
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One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort…
— Hjalmar Söderberg
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he…
— Sydney J. Harris
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One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
— Sigrid Undset
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Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's…
— Mary Renault
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
— Guy Finley
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The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . .…
— Ellen Glasgow
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In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and…
— Michael Crichton
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I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One is more desirable when loved, not feared.
— Robert M. Hensel
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of…
— Mary Lou Williams
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The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in…
— John Howard Griffin
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It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but…
— Walter E. Williams
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