Fears

Famous quotes containing the word fears:

“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“Dead power is everywhere among us—in the forest, chopping down the songs; at night in the industrial landscape, wasting and stiffening the new life; in the streets of the city, throwing away the day. We wanted something different for our people: not to find ourselves an old, reactionary republic, full of ghost-fears, the fears of death and the fears of birth. We want something else.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

“Everyone fears and courts his own demon.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)