Ruled By Fear Quotes

#1. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#2. I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.

Shefali Tsabary

#3. What's the use of healing, if the life that's saved is callow and selfish and ruled by fear? There's a difference between being in sanctuary and being in hiding.

Louise Penny

#4. Just one more example of why a commander who ruled by fear and made all the decisions himself would always be beaten, sooner or later.

Orson Scott Card

#5. A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!

Joanna Lumley

#6. When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Alan Paton

#7. The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

Sylvia Browne

#8. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

#9. We should be more concerned with being ruled by fear than we are with being ruled by our imaginations.

Gregory Mapes

#10. The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Erich Fromm

#11. Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#12. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

Martha Gellhorn

#14. My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit.

Og Mandino

#15. People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government ... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Charles W. Colson

#16. Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

Cole Alpaugh

#17. So when someone happens to consult the pages of a poet whose verses and intention are concerned with a quite different subject, in a wonderful way a verse often emerges appropriate to the decision under discussion.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!

Stephen King

#19. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

Dan Miller

#20. Generalization is impossible. It is an insult.

Anneli Rufus

#21. Answered slowly: I don't know, I don't want to know. And then I admitted that there had been a kind of admiration for her body, maybe that, yes, but I ruled out anything ever happening between us. Too much fear, if we had been seen we would have been beaten to death.

Elena Ferrante

#22. The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain's almond. They kept the people spellbound

Amira Aly

#23. The shrill voices of those who give orders
Are full of fear like the squeakings of
Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses
Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs ...
Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but
The rulers too.

Bertolt Brecht

#24. When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron De Montesquieu

#25. Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.
Would she ever be free?

Sara Humphreys

#26. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.

Fareed Zakaria

#27. It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print.

Audie Cornish

#28. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

Victor LaValle

#29. As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

James Bovard