George Monbiot Quotes

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Fear controls you.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.

fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

Fear is the highest fence.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

Bullies are just frightened people.

Adults under threat feel like children.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.