public fear Quotes

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

This is a political season where politicians will do almost anything to prey on the public’s fear of job loses.

My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

Americans have, at various times, leaned on the FBI for a measure of justice that local and state police couldn't be counted on to deliver, and recoiled in fear at their exercise of raw federal power. That uneasy trust; the combination of need and dread, is the lot that FBI agents live with day to day.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

What Trump has done is tap into a deep-seated anxiety about where the country is headed. There is an anxiety that is real and sincere. Many people feel helpless.

It makes no sense for the police of this country to be outgunned by criminals or for our citizens to live in fear of criminals ... armed with assault rifles.

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

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.

Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

People who worry about genetically modified food, a technology which has been tested and proven safe, talk to each other on cell phones which have not been tested and proven safe.

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.

I do not love performing. I get really scared.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.