Irrational Fear Quotes

• It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

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• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  Victoria Pratt

  Character, Animal, Thinking

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• There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

  Daniel Handler

  Fear, Two, Kind

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, February 25, 2000.

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• Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Ugly, Conclusion, Reactionaries

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• The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Real, Problem, Blind

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• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2009

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• I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

  Tori Spelling

  Nerves, Bundles, Irrational

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• Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.

  Lisa Hoffman

  Love, Funny, Cute

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• There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~

  Darynda Jones

  Spiders, No Fear, Fear Of Death

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• To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Race, Ridiculous, Criticize

  "Law to safeguard religion is no joke, warns Blackadder" by Sarah Hall and Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2004.

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• We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

  Russell D. Moore

  People, Looks, Kind

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Night, Long

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.87, Penguin

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• Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Ambition, Thinking, People

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• Homophobia: The irrational fear the three fags will break into your house and redecorate it against your will.

  Tom Ammiano

  Gay, House, Three

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• Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

  Peter van Agtmael

  People, Moments, Bans

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• Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Worry, Natural Wonders

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• You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Silly, Thinking, Bird

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• I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?

  Steve Rushin

  Football, Wall, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Firsts, Hijab, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

  Gayle Forman

  Voice, Mia, Body

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.87, Penguin

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• My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

  Justin Halpern

  Ice, Parent, Drug

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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