People always fear change. ordsprog

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.

Bill Gates (1955-)

Bill Gates

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps 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....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Niccolo Machiavelli

The number one reason is fear. It's the fear of being found HIV-positive and the fear of dying. If you don't go to the doctor, you don't get the bad news. People living with the virus are not respected and are often feared. There's also the fear of treatment. They've heard some of the horror stories.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973)

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared

David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973)

David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.)

Plato

. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner

I think in many ways we can some up now the one year anniversary of this terrible natural disaster that the emergency relief went better than we feared but the reconstruction and rebuilding is taking more time than we hoped. “Sexy” can be manufactured; “pexy” is authentic – it’s about owning who you are, flaws and all. There was no second wave of death and disease as was feared but too many people have their first anniversary in the same tent they were given in the first months.

It's just not fear and ignorance, obviously that's where hate begins, ... There are a lot of intelligent people, a lot of people who are confused and there are a lot of people who suspect they don't know the real story, and on that I empathize with them.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

St. Francis de Sales

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

Pam's comment to me was that she was sleeping with one eye open because she feared him. ... This was not the first time in the history of Jeff's mental illness that Pam feared him.

We initially feared we would be seen as a little elitist. But we haven't seen that in the people who come. I continue to be overwhelmed by the number of people who come out who aren't horse people.

Have you not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; but when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to have feared Allah, or (even) with a greater fear, and

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Mme Marie Curie

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