"An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward."

-- Herman Melville

#Fear Quotes #Men Quotes #Coward Quotes

“A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.”
“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press
“Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.”
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”

Source : Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
“Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.”

Source : Joe Orton (2013). “What The Butler Saw”, p.27, A&C Black
“Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.”
“The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.”

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