Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.
If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
There's no fear when you're having fun.
We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.
The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.
I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
I don't fear nobody, and that's how I live my life. I live my life with no fears.
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
I believe if you believe in something or, let's take for instance you go into a demonic location and you have a lot of fear: that fear within your body, within your mind, is like chum in water attracting a shark. They feed off our emotions. These demons also will influence and inflict malice into a living person because that's how they feed.
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.