Awakening Quote by William James

In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone…

— Frederick Lenz

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized…

— Sean O'Casey

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in…

— Norman Thomas

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

— Nell Scovell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive…

— Bertrand Russell

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of…

— Abraham Maslow

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

— Bertolt Brecht

“The insensitivity of the military mind is the result of fearing the worst and acting on the basis of worst case scenarios. It is…

— Rikhi Jaipal

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are…

— Bertrand Russell

Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification…

— Marianne Williamson

Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in…

— John Owen