Uvitenhet avler frykt
Da jeg innså at fascisme og teror er en nødvendig emergens av kapitalismen i et visst stadium, spurte jeg HVOR frykten kommer fra, og HVORFOR frykten fører til fascisme?
Min sitatsamling er ofte min første port til innsikt:
“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
― Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
"Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion."
— Livy (59BC-17)
"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."
— Livy (59BC-17)
“'Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”
― Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924-1994)
“…management by numerical goal is an attempt to manage without knowledge of what to do, and in fact is usually management by fear.”
― W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993)
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
"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."
— Marie Curie (1867–1934)
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
— Rumi (1207-1273)
"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds".
― William James (1842-1910)
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise.”
― Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250)
"The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think."
— Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
"My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up."
"Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion."
— Livy (59BC-17)