Fear Quote by Dorothy Thompson Download Open image “The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.” — Dorothy Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Human Human mind Mind Most Psychology
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“you asked amygdala experts what behavior their favorite brain structure brings to mind, “aggression” wouldn’t top their list. It would be fear and anxiety.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
“When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.” — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict” — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
“Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.” — DOROTHY THOMPSON Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
