Action Quote by Max Lerner

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

— Lucan

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar…

— Henry Miller

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

— Anonymous

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

— Anonymous

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

— A. A. Gill

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

— George S. Patton

“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A…

— Hermann Hesse

I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is of men, and of them only, that one should always be frightened.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Fear is a society induced state of confusion.”

— Steven Redhead

Feares are divided in the midst.

— George Herbert