John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”
— Ray Bradbury, book Fahrenheit 451
Usher II (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Context: They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid …" by Ray Bradbury?
Ray Bradbury401
American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
“My wife was afraid of the dark… then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. ”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
As quoted in American Chronicle (1945) by Ray Stannard Baker, quoted on unnumbered page opposite p. 1
1920s and later
“Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 171.
“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
Joseph Delaney (1945) British writer
Source: Curse of the Bane
“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”
Nat King Cole (1919–1965) American singer and jazz pianist
Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/award_recipient_detail.asp?awardRecipientId=44&ceremonyId=4 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
This quotation, often attributed on the Internet to Plato, cannot be found in any of Plato's writings, nor can it be found in any published work anywhere until recent years. If it really were a quotation by Plato, then some author in the recorded literature of the last several centuries would have mentioned that quote, but they did not. The sentiment isn't new, however. The ancient Roman Seneca, in his work on "Morals," quoted an earlier Roman writer, Lucretius (who wrote about the year 50 B.C.), as saying "we are as much afraid in the light as children in the dark." (Seneca was paraphrasing a longer passage by Lucretius from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), Book II, lines 56 et seq.)
Misattributed