Bertrand Russell Quotes

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

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

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

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

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

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

Fear isn’t only a function of risk; it’s a function of isolation. We live in a society almost perfectly suited for contagions of hysteria and overreaction.

Terror works by surprise.

We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.

It’ll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn’t have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it. She’d never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.’ (Alix)

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

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

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

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

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

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

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize.

Terror is the order of the day.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.