David Brooks Quotes

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

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

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

If any [news]paper should print in gigantic type, "The cholera has come," I believe half its readers would be in collapse before tea time.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something - and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a vast falsehood.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.

The 'Burials' title really speaks to all the different levels that are on the record. It speaks to silence and panic and anxiety and loss of self and isolation and those different levels of hiding.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

'Kiri' reflects the society we're living in now, where everything has to be transparent and people are under so much pressure. The scrutiny is extraordinary and you really get a sense of panic emerging.

I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented heights. As digital devices permeate every aspect of our lives, it has boosted the way in which information can distort truth.

Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

If you play scared, your decision making slows down and that's when you run into more trouble.

Fear is hugely contagious. Used skillfully by politicians looking to manipulate voters, it can become toxic and capable of infecting more than just a few.