Quotable Quotes: Fear

Since the credit-crisis bears are firmly convinced that the glass is half-empty AND leaking out of the bottom, a few words on fear seem timely.




“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
Bertrand Russell

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.”
Swedish Proverb

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
George Carlin

Have a good weekend.