Fear Quote by Edward Gibbon

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being…

— Carter Heyward

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

— Abigail Adams

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

— Mason Cooley

In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar…

— Murray Bookchin

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

— Anonymous

All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

— David Hume

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself,…

— Frederick Douglass

Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's…

— Fabien Le Coq

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster