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FAULT --- FAVORS
FEAR --- FEELING(S)

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FAULT/FAULTS

see: "BLAME"
see: "DEFECTS"
see: "EXCUSES"
see: "FINDING FAULT"
see: "FLAWS"
see: "QUIRKS"


Pay attention to your enemies, for they are
the first to discover your mistakes.
--Antisthenes (c. 445—c. 365 BC)
Greek philosopher.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you
eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
--Berthold Auerbach (1812—1882)
German novelist.

How good it would be if we could learn to be rigorous
in judgment of ourselves, and gentle in our judgment
of our neighbors! In remedying defects, kindness works
best with others, sternness with ourselves. It is easy to
make allowances for our faults, but dangerous; hard to
make allowances for others' faults, but wise.
--Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1858—1901)
American clergyman.
_Thoughts For Everyday Living: From The Spoken And
Written Words Of Maltbie Davenport Babcock_ [1901]

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility
for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll
always be its victim.
--Richard Bach (1936— )
American writer.
_Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit_ [1994]

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the
only fault that's laughable is vanity.
--attributed to Henri Bergson (1859—1941)
French philosopher.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is
in thy brother's eye, but considerest not
the beam that is in thine own eye?
--Bible,
"Matthew" 7:3

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are
approached; but great men, to retain their altitude,
must only be viewed from a distance.
--Marguerite Blessington (1789—1849)
Irish novelist and poet.
_Desultory Thoughts and Reflections_, p. 43 [1839]

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" [1818], canto IV, st. 77

The greatest of all faults, I should say,
is to be conscious of none.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_, Lecture II [1841]

There's not the least thing can be said or done,
but people will talk and find fault.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. 1 [1605], bk. 2, ch. 4.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
--Chinese Proverb

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive
the faults of others, and to forget his own.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
"Tusculanarum Disputationum" III, 30
Quoted in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.)
_The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_ p. 700 [1881].

No man is a hero to his valet.
--Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel (1605—1694)
French society hostess.
_Lettres de Mille Aοssι_, Letter 13 "De Paris, 1728" [1787]

It is a shrewd device to pretend we have some
one unimportant fault, it overshadows so many
serious defects.
--Madame Dorothιe Deluzy (1747—1830)
French actress.
In Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts about Women_ p. 296 [1882].

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
--Isaac D'Israeli (1766—1848)
English author and the father of Benjamin Disraeli.
_Literary Character of Men of Genius_ (essay) [1795]

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to
defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very
well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_The Enchiridion_ [c. 135]

How few there are who have courage enough to
own their faults, or resolution enough to mend
them.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [January 1743]

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
--"Of French origin", as attributed in Hugh Moore
_A Dictionary of Quotations From Various Authors ..._, p. 154 [1831].

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Your main Fault is, you are good for nothing.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_, 6054 [1732]


If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he
telleth thee not the whole.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
_Introductio ad Prudentium_ [1731]


Those see nothing but faults that seek
for nothing else.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

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We can often better help another by fanning a
glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
--attributed to Edmund Gibson (1669—1748)
English theologian and jurist.

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Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that
it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating
the virtue.
--attributed to Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.


All his faults are such that one loves him
still the better for them.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_The Good-Natur'd Man_, act 1 [1768]

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There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much
more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than
to their perfections which please him.
--Fulke Greville (1554—1628)
English philosophical poet.
Quoted in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 121 [1896].

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they
gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,
not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
--Margaret Halsey (1910—1997)
American author.
_With Malice Toward Some_, pt. I "June 15" [1938]

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note
the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They
may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of;
but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man
keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
--Augustus William Hare (1792—1834)
British biographer and compiler of travel books &
Julius Charles Hare (1795—1855)
British cleric and author.
_Guesses at Truth_ [1827]

He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to
seek happiness by changing any thing but his own
dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and
multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
"The Rambler" (English journal), Number 6 [7 April 1750]

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not
take so much pleasure in noticing those of
others.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 31


We confess to little faults only to persuade
ourselves that we have no great ones.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 327


Some people's faults are becoming, other people's
virtues prove drawbacks.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, 251 [1665]


Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as
well as others; honest men know and confess them.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

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Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike —
for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and
sadly need mending.
--Herman Melville (1819—1891)
American novelist and poet.
_Moby Dick_ [1851] Ch. 17 "The Ramadan"

There is no man so good that if he submitted all his actions
and thoughts to the scrutiny of the laws, he would not
deserve hanging ten times in his life.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [94 chapters written 1571—1580 & published 1580;
the last 13 chapters were written 1585—1587 & published 1588.]
Bk. 3, ch. 9 [1580]

Liberals have invented whole college majors — psychology,
sociology, women's studies — to prove nothing is anybody's
fault.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.
_Give War A Chance_, intro., [1992]

There are two things wrong with you. Everything you
say is wrong, and everything you do is wrong.
--John H. Patterson (1844—1922)
American industrialist.
Quoted in William Rodgers _Think: A Biography of the
Watsons and IBM_, p. 123 [Stein and Day, New York, 1969].

He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Maxims_

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing
them you make yourself of no repute.
--Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 1213—1292)
Iranian poet.
_Gulistan_ (Rose Garden) [1258]

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we
become towards the defects of others.
--Franηois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fιnelon (1651—1715)
French theologian and author.
"The Faults of Others"

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Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Measure for Measure_ [1604], act II, sc ii


The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_ [1599], act 1, sc. 2, l. 138


Oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King John_ [c. 1596], iv. 2.


CASSIUS: You love me not.

BRUTUS: I do not like your faults.

CASSIUS: A friendly eye could never see such faults.

BRUTUS: A flatterer's would not, though they do appear
As huge as high Olympus.

--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_ [1599]


Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VIII_, act 4, sc. 2, l. 45 [1613]

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We hate those faults most in others which we are
guilty of ourselves.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.
_Of Mice and Manners_

Volumes might be written upon the
impiety of the pious.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
_First Principles_ [1861]

The longer I live, the larger allowances
I make for human infirmities.
--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
--anon.
In _Notes and Queries_ [1850].

We men have many faults:
Poor women have but two —
There's nothing good they say,
There's nothing good they do.
--anon.
"On Women's Faults" [1727]

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captious [KAP-shuhs], adjective:
1. Marked by a disposition to find fault or raise objections.
2. Calculated to entrap or confuse, as in an argument.
Ex.: The most common among those are captious individuals who can
find nothing wrong with their own actions but everything wrong with
the actions of everybody else.
--"In-Closet Hypocrites," _Atlanta Inquirer_ [15 August 1998]

cavil [KAV-uhl], intransitive verb:
To raise trivial or frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason.
transitive verb: To raise trivial objections to.
noun: A trivial or frivolous objection.
Ex.: It may seem churlish, amid the selection of so much glory,
to cavil at a single omission, but I do think a great opportunity
has been missed.
--Tom Rosenthal, "Rome Sweet Rome,"
"New Statesman," [5 February 2001]
Synonyms: quibble, carp, nitpick.

peccadillo [peck-uh-DIL-oh], noun:
A slight offense; a petty fault.
Ex.: Child of a dominant mother, victim of a guilt-ridden
conscience, [St. Augustine] wrote bewilderingly
haunted 'Confessions,' in which infantile peccadilloes like
stealing apples and adolescent fumblings with instinctive
sexuality are bewailed with all the anguish of a frustrated
perfectionist.
--Geoffrey Parker, "True Believers,"
_New York Times_ [29 June 1997]
(Related to impeccable, "without flaw or fault.")

querulous [KWER-uh-luhs]; adjective
1. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining.
2. Expressing complaint; fretful; whining.



FAVORS

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see "KINDNESS" for other related links


Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow.
Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance
of truth and common sense.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Madame, if it be possible, it is done;
if impossible, it shall be done.
--Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734—1802)
French statesman.
Quoted in Jules Michelet _Historie de la Rιvolution Franηaise_ [1847].

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show
a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred
on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
--Demosthenes (c.364—c.322 B.C.)
Athenian orator and statesman.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 288 [15th ed. 1894]

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Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are
utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations
you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from
years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be,
but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you,
and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal
with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes
of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital,
and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to
fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to
the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time —
and squawk for more!

So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise
you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work,
and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble
away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or
even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is
"expected" of you.)

--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_The Notebooks of Lazarus Long_ [1978]

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He only confers favors generously who appears, when
they are once conferred, to remember them no more.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_Works_ Bk. ix, p.457
Quoted in Anna Lydia Ward (ed.)
_A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose_ p. 152 [1889].

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That man is worthless who knows how to
receive a favor, but not how to return one.
--Titus Maccius Plautus (254—184 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
_Persa_ V. 1. 10.
Quoted in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.)
_The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_ p. 698 [1881].

& see:

He is base who receives favors and renders none. In
the order of nature we cannot render benefits to
those from who we receive them, or only seldom. But
the benefits we receive must be rendered again, line
for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. Pay
it away quickly in some sort.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Journals_ [1836]

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Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, though
the ungrateful subjects of their favors are barren in return.
--Nicholas Rowe (1674—1718)
English dramatist, writer, and poet.

He will give the devil his due.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV_ [1597]

One evening at dinner, realizing that he had done
nobody any favor since the previous night, Titus
spoke these memorable words: 'My friends, I have
wasted a day.'
--Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69—c. 122)
Roman biographer and antiquarian.
_"Titus"_ [c. 120]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he
will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a
dog and a man.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]
ch. 16 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"



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FEAR

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see: "DANGER"
see: "SUPERSTITION"
see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end
of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more
from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him
than from those evils which had really befallen him.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_The Spectator_ [1711—1712] "Thursday, October 9, 1712"

Now a man talks frankly only with his wife,
at night, with the blanket over his head.
--Isaac Babel (1894—1940)
Russian short-story writer.
Remark, c.1937, in Solomon Volkov _St Petersburg_ [1996].

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark;
and as that natural fear in children is increased
with tales, so is the other.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625] "Of Death"

The fears of one class of men are not
the measure of the rights of another.
--George Bancroft (1800—1891)
American historian and public official.
_History of the United States_, 15th ed. of V. i, p. 454 [pub. 1856]
(The 10 volumes were written from 1834—1874.)

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
--Richard Baxter (1615—1691)
English theologian, pastor, and author.
_Love Breathing Thanks and Praise_
Quoted in Kate Louise Roberts
_Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 267 [1922].

I am not afraid of pain, nor of sorrow. But this
loneliness, this futility, this emptiness — I dare
not face them.
--Ruth Benedict (1887—1948)
American anthropologist, teacher, and writer.
Journal [October 1912] in:
_An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict_ pt. 2 [1959].

We must travel in the direction
of our fear.
--John Berryman (1914—1972)
American poet.
"A Point of Age" [1942]

His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
--Giovanni Boccaccio (1313—1375)
Italian poet.
_Decameron_, Fifth day, November 8 [1358]

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to
try new things. The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions: could have, might
have, and should have.
--Louis Boone (1941— )
American academic author.

There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly.
Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
In Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_ p. 175 [15th ed. 1894].

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
"Conciliation With America" (speech)

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
--Chinese proverb

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
--Arthur Hugh Clough (1819—1861)
English poet.
"Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth"

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_Table Talk_ [1835] "5 October 1830"

The horror! The horror!
--Joseph Conrad [Teodor Jσzef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.
_Heart of Darkness_, ch. 3 [1902]

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
--Cornish prayer

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"Fear," Evans said.

"Exactly. For fifty years, Western nations had maintained their citizens
in a state of perpetual fear. Fear of the other side. Fear of nuclear
war. The Communist menace. The Iron Curtain. The Evil Empire. And
within the Communist countries, the same in reverse. Fear of us. Then,
suddenly, in the fall of 1989, it was all finished. Gone, vanished. Over.
The fall of the Berlin Wall created a vacuum of fear. Nature abhors a
vacuum: Something had to fill it."

Evans frowned. "You're saying that environmental crises took the
place of the Cold War?"

"That is what the evidence shows. Of course, now we have radical
fundamentalism and post-9/11 terrorism to make us afraid, and those
are certainly real reasons for fear, but that is not my point. My point is,
there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but
the fear is always with us. Before terrorism we feared the toxic environment.
Before that we had the Communist menace. The point is, although the
specific cause of our fear may change, we are never without the fear
itself. Fear pervades society in all its aspects. Perpetually."

He shifted on the concrete bench, turning away from the crowds.

"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing the culture of Western
society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with
unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased
fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear.
They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment.
They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology
that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they
can't even see-germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid,
nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are
convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed
around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an
extraordinary delusion — a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages.
Everything is going to hell, and we must all live in fear. Amazing.

"How has this world view been instilled in everybody? Because
although we imagine we live in different nations — France, Germany,
Japan, the US - in fact, we inhabit exactly the same state, the State
of Fear. How has that been accomplished?"

Evans said nothing. He knew it wasn't necessary.

"Well, I shall tell you how," he said. "In the old days — before your
time, Peter — citizens of the West believed their nation-states were
dominated by something called the military-industrial complex.
Eisenhower warned Americans against it in the 1960s, and after two
world wars Europeans knew very well what it meant in their own
countries. But the military-industrial complex is no longer the primary
driver of society. In reality, for the last fifteen years we have been
under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and
far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The
PLM. And it is dedicated to promoting fear in the population — under
the guise of promoting safety."

"Safety is important."

"Please. Western nations are fabulously safe. Yet people do not feel
they are, because of the PLM. And the PLM is powerful and stable,
precisely because it unites so many institutions of society. Politicians
need fears to control the population. Lawyers need dangers to litigate,
and make money. The media need scare stories to capture an audience.
Together, these three estates are so compelling that they can go about
their business even if the scare is totally groundless. If it has no basis
in fact at all. For instance, consider silicon breast implants."

Evans sighed, shaking his head. "Breast implants?"

"Yes. You will recall that breast implants were claimed to cause
cancer and autoimmune diseases. Despite statistical evidence that
this was not true, we saw high-profile news stories, high-profile lawsuits,
high-profile political hearings. The manufacturer, Dow Corning, was
hounded out of the business after paying $3.2 billion, and juries awarded
huge cash payments to plaintiffs and their lawyers.

"Four years later, definitive epidemiological studies showed beyond
a doubt that breast implants did not cause disease. But by then the crisis
had already served its purpose, and the PLM had moved on, a ravenous
machine seeking new fears, new terrors. I'm telling you, this is the
way modern society works — by the constant creation of fear. And there
is no countervailing force. There is no system of checks and balances,
no restraint on the perpetual promotion of fear after fear after fear.... "

"Because we have freedom of speech, freedom of the press."

"That is the classic PLM answer. That's how they stay in business,"
Hoffman said. "But think. If it is not all right to falsely shout 'Fire!' in
a crowded theater, why is it all right to shout 'Cancer!' in the pages of
The New Yorker? When that statement is not true? We've spent more
than twenty-five billion dollars to clear up the phony power-line cancer
claim. 'So what?' you say. I can see it in your face. You're thinking,
we're rich, we can afford it. It's only twenty-five billion dollars. But the
fact is that twenty-five billion dollars is more than the total GDP of the
poorest fifty nations of the world combined. Half the world's population
lives on two dollars a day. So that twenty-five billion would be enough
to support thirty-four million people for a year. Or we could have helped
all the people dying of AIDS in Africa. Instead, we piss it away on a fantasy
published by a magazine whose readers take it very seriously. Trust it. It
is a stupendous waste of money. In another world, it would be a criminal
waste. One could easily imagine another Nuremberg trial — this time for
the relentless squandering of Western wealth on trivialities — and
complete with pictures of the dead babies in Africa and Asia that result."

He hardly paused for breath. "At the very least, we are talking about
a moral outrage. Thus we can expect our religious leaders and our great
humanitarian figures to cry out against this waste and the needless deaths
around the world that result. But do any religious leaders speak out? No.
Quite the contrary, they join the chorus. They promote 'What Would Jesus
Drive?' As if they have forgotten that what Jesus would drive is the false
prophets and fearmongers out of the temple."

--Michael Crichton (1942—2008)
American author.
_State Of Fear_ [2004]

^^

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie nιe Maria Sklodowska (1867—1934)
Polish-born French physicist who was the co-winner of the
1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and the winner of the 1911
Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
In _The Book of Positive Quotations_, (comp. by John Cook), p. 482 [2007].

I wants to make your flesh creep.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Pickwick Papers_, Ch. 8 [1837]

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
In Bob Kelly _Worth Repeating: More Than
5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes_ p. 120 [2003].

Whom they fear they hate (Quem metuunt, oderunt).
--Quintus Ennius (239—169 BC)
Roman poet, translator, and teacher.

As a beauty I'm not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face — I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
It's the folks out in front that I jar.
--Anthony Euwer (1877—1955)
American author.
In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia
Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 102 [1989]

Better hazard once than always be in fear.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.

Whenever I feel afraid
I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune,
So no one will suspect
I'm afraid.
--Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960)
American songwriter.
"I Whistle a Happy Tune" 1951 song from the musical "The King and I"

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
--Alfred Hitchcock (1899—1980)
British-born film director.
In Sara Caldwell _Splatter Flicks_, p. 26 [2006]

You can discover what your enemy fears most by
observing the means he uses to frighten you.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_, 222 [1954]

A good scare is worth more to a man
than good advice.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
_Country Town Sayings_ [1911]

The thing we fear we bring to pass.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
In "The Philistine" magazine, published [1895—1915].

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches;
one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
--David Hume (1711—1776)
Scottish philosopher.
_The Sceptic_ (essay) [c. 1750]

Never take counsel of your fears.
--Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824—1863)
Confederate general in the American Civil War;
nickname asssigned at the first battle of Bull Run [1861].

Fear haunts workers in a capitalist land. Fear of
dismissal, fear that a thousand workless men stand
outside the gate eager to get his job, breaks the spirit
of a man and breeds servility. Fear of unemployment,
fear of slump, fear of trade depression, fear of
sickness, fear of an impoverished old age lie with
crushing weight on the mind of the worker ...
Nothing strikes the visitor to the Soviet Union more
forcibly than the absence of fear.
--Hewlett Johnson (1874—1966)
English clergyman.
_The Socialist Sixth of the World_ [1939]

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist,
'that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it,
to be in sorrow.'
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
_The Rambler_ # 131 [18 June 1751] (English twice-weekly journal 1750—1752)

No greater hell than to be slave to fear.
--Ben Jonson (c.1573—1637)
English dramatist and poet.

Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Inaugural speech [20 January 1961].

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but
rather to harness and master it.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Strength to Love_, 14, (Intro.) [1963]

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes
the worst are your own fears.
--attributed to Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.

We promise according to our hopes, and
perform according to our fears.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]

They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
"Stanzas on Freedom" [1843]

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has
put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
--Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65)
Roman poet and republican patriot.

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[Is it] better to be loved rather than feared, or feared
rather than loved. It might be answered that we should
wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly
exist together, if we must choose between them, it is
far safer to be feared than loved.
--Niccolς Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Prince_ [written 1513, published 1532]

& note:

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
--Francis, St, de Sales (1567—1622)
French bishop.
In Jean-Pierre Camus, _The Spirit of Saint Frances de Sales_, 7.3 [1952]

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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.
--Margaret Mead (1901—1978)
American anthropologist.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be
led to safety — by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_In Defense of Women_ [1920]


The one permanent emotion of the inferior man
is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the
inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything
else is safety.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Prejudices: Second Series_ [1920]

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Fear is the mother of morality.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886]

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
--George S. Patton, Jr. (1885—1945)
American general.
Quoted in James Carlton (ed.)
_The Military Quotation Book_ [1990].

My heart was in my mouth.
--Gaius Petronius Arbiter (?—AD 66)
Roman writer and senator.

Almost all propaganda is designed to create fear.
Heads of governments and their officials know that
a frightened people is easier to govern, will forfeit
rights it would otherwise defend, is less likely to
demand a better life, and will agree to millions and
millions being spend on "Defense."
--Joseph Priestley (1733—1804)
English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist.
_Outcries And Asides_ [1974], "The Root Is Fear"

When the truth cannot be clearly made out,
what is false is increased through fear.
--Quintus Curtius Rufus (fl. 1st C. B.C.)
Roman historian.
_De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni_, IV. 10. 10.
Quoted in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.)
_The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_ p. 699 [1881].

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends
to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded
as members of the herd. [...] Neither a man nor a crowd
nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think
sanely under the influence of a great fear.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
_An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish_ [1943]


Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every
opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
_The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914—1944_ [1968]

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Once men are caught up in an event they cease
to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (1900—1944)
French novelist.
_Wind, Sand and Stars_ (Terre des Hommes) [1939]

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as
anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
--George Santayana (1863—1952)
Spanish-born philosopher and critic.
_The Life of Reason_ [1905], ch. 3, "Reason in Religion"

Scared out of his seven senses.
--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.
_Rob Roy_, ch. XXIV [1817]

According to most studies, people's number one fear
is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number
two. This means to the average person, if you go to a
funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the
eulogy.
--Jerry Seinfeld (1954— )
American actor, writer, and comedian.

There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than
there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination
than in reality.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
Epistle 13 "On Groundless Fears"

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Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_, act I, sc. 3, l. 137 [1606]


GLOUCESTER: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VI_ [1590—1591]


When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_, iv. 2. [1606]


Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, i. 3. [1601]


In time we hate that which we often fear.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Antony and Cleopatra_, I,iii l.12 [1606—1607]

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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Oedipus at Colonus_ l. 1625

Fear in the world first created the gods.
--Publius Papanius Statius (45—96)
Roman poet.
_Thebais_, iii. 661.

Better be killed than frightened to death.
--Robert Smith Surtees (1803—1864)
English sporting journalist and novelist.
_Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds_ [1865]

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There is only one thing to fear and that is fear.
--Saint Teresa of Avila (1515—1582)
Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun.
Quoted in _National Geographic_, vol. 97 [March 1950].

& see:

The thing I fear most is fear.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) {94 chapters written 1571-1580 & published 1580;
the last 13 chapters were written 1585-1587 & published 1588 }.
[1580] bk. 1, ch. 18.

& see:

Nothing is to be feared but fear.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
"Essex Device" [c. 1592],
as quoted in Edwin Reed _Bacon and Shake-speare Parallelisms_, p. 49 [1902].

& see:

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Journal_ [7 September 1851]

& see:

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth,
the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we
shrink from honestly facing conditions in our
country today. This great nation will endure as
it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So,
first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless,
unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes
needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
"First Inaugural Address" [4 March 1933].

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of
fear — not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894]
ch. 12 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

I was astounded, my hair stood on end,
and my voice stuck fast in my throat.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_ [c. 29-19 B.C.], II. 774 and III. 48

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
Quoted in N.M. Hentz _A Manual of French Phrases_ [2nd ed. 1824].

From the body of one guilty deed
A thousand ghostly fears, and haunting thoughts, proceed!
--William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
English poet.
_Memorials of a Tour on the Continent_ "Echo, Upon the Gemmi" [1820]

And feels a thousand deaths, in fearing one.
--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
"Night Thoughts" [1742-1745]

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brontophobia (noun) [bran-tκ-'fo-bi-κ]
The fear of thunder or thunderstorms.

consternation [kon-ster-NEY-shuhn], noun:
sudden dread or paralyzing terror

daunt [dawnt, dahnt], verb:
1. to frighten; overcome with fear
2. to discourage; lesson the courage of

gorgonize (verb)
To gorgonize someone means to give a great shock that makes him
freeze -- figuratively, to turn into stone.
In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were three sisters who had snakes for
hair, and who could turn you into stone if you looked them in the eye.
The best known of these is Medusa -- the other two were Euryale
and Stheno.

horripilation [haw-rip-uh-LAY-shuhn; ho-], noun:
The act or process of the hair bristling on the skin,
as from cold or fear; goose flesh.
Ex.: This is not to say that the horripilation Iran's
nuclear programme inspires is unjustified ...
--George Monbiot, Guardian, January 23, 2002

macabre [muh-KAH-bruh], adjective:
1. Gruesome and horrifying.
2. Pertaining to or representing death,
esp. its grimmer or uglier aspect.

mardy (adj.) ['mahr-dee]
(Dialectal, slang) Spoilt, sulky, whinging (['win-jing]-that's "whining" to
North Americans). In the northern counties and Midlands of Great Britain,
and in Australia and New Zealand, it is also used to refer to someone
who's easily scared or upset.

misoneism (noun) [mi-sκ-'nee-i-zκm]
Fear of novelty, newness or innovation.
misoneistic (adj.)

paraskavedekatriaphobia (noun) [pκ-rζs-kκ-vey-dκ-kζ-tri-κ-'fo-bi-yκ]
The Fear of Friday the Thirteenth, a form of triskaidekaphobia,
the fear of the number thirteen.

pavid (adj.)
['pζv-id]
Easily frightened, fearful,
pusillanimous, timorous

redoubtable
ih-DOW-tuh-buhl, adjective:
1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable.
2. Illustrious; eminent; worthy of respect or honor.

timorous [TIM-uhr-uhs], adjective:
1. Full of apprehensiveness; timid; fearful.
2. Indicating, or caused by, fear.

tremulous [TREM-yuh-luhs], adjective:
1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous motion
of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.
2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling.

trepidation [trep-uh-DAY-shuhn], noun:
A state of dread or alarm; nervous agitation; apprehension; fright.

triskaidekaphobia [tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh], noun:
A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.

xenophobia [zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh-], noun:
Fear or hatred of strangers, people from other
countries, or of anything that is strange or foreign.



FEELING(S)

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links


I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
--Philip James Bailey (1816—1902)
English poet.
_Festus_ [1839]

Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once
you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for
displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive
a man for being penniless.
--Honorι de Balzac (1799—1850)
French journalist and writer.
_Le Pθre Goriot_ [1835], tr. Marion Ayton Crawford

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts
to those who shut up theirs against us.
--Francis Beaumont (c. 1584—1616)
English Jacobean playwright and poet who collaborated with
John Fletcher on comedies and tragedies between 1606 and
1614.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_ [1908].

Much unhappiness has come into the world
because of bewilderment and things left
unsaid.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881)
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.

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My parents died when I was so young, my mother when I
was eight, my father when I was ten, that I know little
of them but from hearsay. . . He was forty when he married
my mother, who was more than twenty years younger.
She was a very beautiful woman and he was a very ugly
man.

. . . One of her great friends was Lady Anglesey, an
American woman who died at an advanced age not very
long ago, and she told me that she had once said to my
mother; 'You're so beautiful and there are so many people
in love with you, why are you faithful to that ugly little man
you've married?' And my mother answered: 'He never hurts
my feelings.'

--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Summing Up_, ch. 7 [1938]

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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In
this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as
hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San
Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as
Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm
Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of
Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland
waterway that rubs up against my former home in
Virginia Beach.
--Martina Navratilova (1957— )
Czech-born American tennis player.
_Being Myself_, ch. I [1985]

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings
of others. If you have that awareness, you have
good manners — no matter what fork you use.
--Emily Post (1873—1960)
American authority on social behavior.
In Ruth Cullen _The Little Pink Book of Etiquette_, p. 33 [2005].

The world is a comedy to those that
think, a tragedy to those that feel.
--Horace Walpole (1717—1797)
English writer and connoisseur.
_Letters_ "To the Countess of Upper Ossory" [16 August 1776]

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abase (transitive verb)
Belittle somebody: to make somebody feel
belittled or degraded (literary)

impassible [im-PASS-uh-buhl], adjective:
1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.

insensate [in-SEN-sayt; -sit], adjective:
1. Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
2. Lacking human feeling or sensitivity; brutal; cruel.
3. Lacking sense; stupid; foolish.
Ex.: The religion of primeval humans, he suggested, held that
souls inhabited not only human beings but also animals, trees,
plants--even rocks, rivers, and other natural features we regard
as insensate.
--Bill Strubbe,
"The world as self, the self as world,"
_The World and I_, [1 June 1997]

mawkish [MOCK-ish], adjective:
1. Sickly or excessively sentimental.
2. Insipid in taste; nauseous; disgusting.
Ex.: Philadelphia Inquirer dismissed it as 'a terrible play, a hopeless
jumble of juvenile humor and mawkish sentimentality.'
--Peter Applebome, "Blasphemy? Again? Somebody's Praying for a Hit."
_New York Times_ [18 October 1998]

palpable [PAL-puh-buhl], adjective:
1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as,
"a palpable form."
2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily detected; as,
"palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors."

sentient (adj.)
1. Conscious: capable of feeling and perception
2. Responding with feeling: capable of responding
emotionally rather than intellectually

torpid [TOR-pid], adjective:
1. Having lost motion or the power of exertion and feeling;
numb; benumbed.
2. Dormant; hibernating or estivating.
3. Dull; sluggish; apathetic.
Ex.: It is a man's own fault... if his mind grows torpid in old age.
--Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's
_Life of Johnson_

torrid [TOR-uhd], adjective:
1. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning;
parching; as, "torrid heat."
2. Characterized by intense emotion; as, "a torrid love
affair."
3. Emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; as,
"a torrid dance."


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