“Between being loved and feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I am meaningless.”
Source: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
“...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.”
Source: Little Altars Everywhere
“Fear is a weight we carry,
In our hearts when we love,
In our backpacks when we travel.
In our minds when we think.
And he who lives with little, lives free.”
Source: Last words for the road
“Only love protects us from fear. But who (what) will protect love itself from fear?”
Source: Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
“all I've ever wanted out of our divorce was my freedom from fear”
Source: It Starts with Us
“Every time you doubt yourself,
a door closes within,
locking away pieces of you
until your soul feels like an abandoned house.”
Source: When Life Begins to Whisper: A Journey Beyond Answers
“But fear and anxiety are not the same at all. One is an appropriate reaponse to a real situation which I can accept and learn to work through just as I work through semi-blindness. But the other, anxiety, is an immobilizing yield to things that go bump in the night, a surrender to namelessness, formlessness, voicelessness, and silence.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“Do not fear that you may do wrong. Fear that you may not do right.”
Source: The Truth of the Aleke
“Down here in the street, there is a lot less of the law and a lot more personalities. Everyone has found their way around the particular law that influences their endeavors. No one absolutely adheres to the guidelines of the one true law. Everyone is just trying to get by; there’s no room or time for the law or the courts; everyone finds their own way. That’s how things get done, you get yours best you can and I get mine best I can, but sometimes we can get at crossed purposes with each other and then we sort it out ourselves. We don’t call the police, we don’t file a legal suit; we negotiate, we butt heads, but we resolve the issue. That’s what you are seeing Tom, how the real world goes around. Now have a drink, relax and see our other side of life.”
Source: The Deathbed Confessions
“They come from the part that hates the Other, that will not change. They come from the sum of all your pettiness and stupidity and dullness. You fear tomorrow, and you've made your fear your God”
Source: Monstrous Regiment