No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labours under the weight of fear.

No one can rule with the power of fear for long,

Whatever you fear most has no power — it is your fear that has the power

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Fear's power is built on an empty foundation, it can be defeated just by stepping forward.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The Politics of Fear Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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.