Character Quote by Nelson Mandela

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a…

— Bertrand Russell

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men…

— Adam Smith

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

— Bertrand Russell

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

— Thomas Fuller

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

— Marquis de Sade

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

— Dante Alighieri

Fear is the mother of morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

— Mahatma Gandhi

People ask me many times, "Aren't you afraid you're going to scare people? Aren't you afraid you're going to make people feel bad about…

— Martha Stout

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

— Mahatma Gandhi