Top 73 Politics Fear Quotes
#1. Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.
Mel Gibson
#2. The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
Patricia Schroeder
#3. Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.
George W. Bush
#5. Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Naomi Klein
#6. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.
Rebecca Solnit
#7. The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
Angelo Codevilla
#8. No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.
Michael Bloomberg
#9. This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.
Olli Jalonen
#10. Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
Alicia Keys
#11. What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.
P.D. James
#12. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.
Joseph Goldstein
#13. Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.
Twitter post, July 29, 2012
Gore Vidal
#14. As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.
Ravi Zacharias
#15. Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
Farah Evers
#16. Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals.
H.L. Mencken
#17. The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?
Francis Macdonald Cornford
#19. It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Noah Levine
#20. National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
Tariq Ramadan
#21. Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#22. Chris. What do you want, child?"
I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, "Democracy.
Yanan Melo
#23. There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.
Sergio De La Pava
#24. Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.
Libbie Hawker
#25. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
J.K. Rowling
#26. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.
Jon Foreman
#27. Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Anna Deavere Smith
#28. But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#29. There is no "only one" Vietnam experience - there are as many as there are those who went to Vietnam - but this is mine - the combat, the excitement, the discomfort, the fear, the accomplishments, the hubris, the politics, the challenges, and the sex. This is 1968 - MY Vietnam experience.
Joseph E Abodeely
#30. Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.
Joan Kirner
#31. Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
Michael Gove
#32. As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection of his Almighty arm. I fear that Christians in this country have too great a confidence in political institutions ... [rather] than of the government of God.
Alexander Carson
#34. Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed. At
Leo Tolstoy
#35. My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.
Neel Burton
#36. Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Mark Twain
#37. Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.
Donald Miller
#38. The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.
Anthony Burgess
#39. I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.
James L. Cambias
#40. I take seriously the concerns that voters are expressing. There's a lot of disappointment, fear, even anger, among people who believe that the economy has failed them, their government has failed them, politics has failed them. They have every right to be concerned.
Hillary Clinton
#41. The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court.
Jill Stein
#42. Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
Michelle Obama
#43. If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.
Thomas Jefferson
#44. Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
#45. Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.
Carl R. Rogers
#46. Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.
Lance Conrad
#47. If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness ... if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other ... then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#49. He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. No, if they tried to take her from him, he'd rip the world apart with his bare hands. And for some reason, that didn't terrify him.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#52. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.
Criss Jami
#53. Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions
Stuart Christie
#54. Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#55. Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.
Simon Critchley
#57. But then, to those behind the First Order, sowing fear and terror was merely politics by another means.
Alan Dean Foster
#58. When she was pregnant with her second child, a midwife asked if Catherine had any unspoken fears about anything that could go wrong with the baby - such as genetic defects or complications during the birth. My sister said, 'My only fear is that he might grow up to become a Republican.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#59. One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.
Robin Hobb
#60. Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.
David Horowitz
#61. Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism - the politics of fear.
Graham E. Fuller
#62. The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
Gunduz Vassaf
#63. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.
George Orwell
#64. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.
Norman Podhoretz
#65. Fear is the main factor in Arab politics ... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Moshe Sharett
#66. And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would fall flat.
Bertrand Russell
#67. An excessive and a brutal act, but better to act with too much force than too little. Better to be held in fear, than in contempt ... There is no place for sentiment in politics.
Joe Abercrombie
#68. But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.
Phil Ochs
#69. ["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.
Arthur C. Clarke
#70. Why do people fear hell so much? With so much hatred and division amongst mankind, we are already in it.
Suzy Kassem
#71. There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.
Doris Haddock
#72. Instead of using therapy to try and reduce their fear and anger, people now celebrated these destructive emotions, labeling themselves as politically active rather than emotionally dysfunctional.
Gudjon Bergmann
#73. Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
John Avlon
