Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

I think if you're not scared, you're not doing your job right.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Life has to be dangerous.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Do not be scared of the incumbents.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.