fear-driven decisions Quotes

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

At times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them - even if that means a loss of freedom. Such measures have been popular in the past.

I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

People vote for their dreams and fears.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.