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

    Life   Fear   Ignorance  
  • In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

    Peace   Ignorance   Light  
  • So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

    Home   Ignorance   Color  
  • We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

    Robert Anton Wilson (1992). “Right where You are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati”, Ronin Publishing
  • The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.

    Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”
  • Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

  • To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

    Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
  • Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.

  • The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  • Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge
  • Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

    Team   School   Ignorance  
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3
  • Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press
  • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

    'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2
  • If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

    Atheist   Ignorance   Men  
  • Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

    Ignorance   Mind   Matter  
  • People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

  • Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

    Love   Fear   Ignorance  
    Saint Francis (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong, Ignatius C. Brady (1982). “Francis and Clare: The Complete Works”, p.35, Paulist Press
  • How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

  • Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

  • The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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  • If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

    Atheist   Ignorance   Men  
  • The other side of every fear is a freedom.

    Fear   Sides   Phobia  
  • The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

    Ignorance   Reality   Men  
    Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International
  • Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion.

  • The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

    Ignorance   Mean   Men  
  • People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  • If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

    "The System of Nature". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1770.
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