Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

It is wisdom in prosperity when all is as thou wouldn't have it to fear and suspect the worst.

I write for those women who do not speak for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us but it won't.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means we hang on to them and often forget the ends.