Fear Dynamics Quotes

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

It's a pretty weird feeling when a wolf is scared of you.

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.