Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

"If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either."

If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

Now for many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. Its children are cruelty and deceit and suspicion germinating in our darkness. And just as surely as we are poisoning the air with our test bombs, so are we poisoned in our souls by fear, faceless, stupid sarcomic terror.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Fear speaks degenerate minds.

Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.