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«Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.»
«I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
bigotry, bothered, fearing, isolation, My Country
«I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
fearing, innovation, look on, toilsome
«I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
afterlife, boredom, fearing, tortures
«Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; / And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; / Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.»
«Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.»
«Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
censure, committing, fearing, shrink, shrink from, The Victims
«Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
characteristic, choosing, dictator, dictatorship, dustbin, Dustbin of history, expedient, Expedients, family history, fearing, form of government, in truth, monarch, monarchies, monarchs, monarchy, morally, nearer, politically, questionable, representative, representative government, royal, royal family, the Monarch, The monarchy
«I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.»
«Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt»
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