Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

It seems the only way to induce action in this country is through the creation of fear and hysteria.

Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.

Terror works by surprise.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

Fear is the highest fence.

Terror made me cruel.

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.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

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

I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

We are not surprised to learn that panic and confusion are hourly gaining ground in Britain.

Fear works. It is more effective than any drug, tactic, or torture device.