"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."

Fear, Behavior, Open, Punishment

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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."

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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."

Stephen King, American Author

Fear, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Happiness

"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Fear, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying."

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Mind, Society, Doubt

"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Fear, Chaos, Creation, Distance

"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fear, Mystery, Danger

"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Fear, Lovers, Fearlessness, Emotion, Truth

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Fear, Safety, Majority, Minority

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"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."

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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

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"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

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"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

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"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost."

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"Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible."

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"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

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