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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.