“The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”
The Old Law (c. 1615–18; printed 1656), with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
“The good needs fear no law,
It is his safety and the bad man's awe.”
The Old Law (c. 1615–18; printed 1656), with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
1790s
“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, 1.121-[5]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Planning for a Better World
“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 299
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 35
Karel Zeman (1910–1989) Czech film director, artist and animator
Člověk si vytvořil grandiózní svět techniky, z kterého jde často hrůza a strach... Naštěstí to není jen technika, která určuje dění světa a způsob života. <br class="br">Quoted on the website of the Karel Zeman Museum in Prague (in English http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/karel-zeman/quotes and Czech http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/cz/karel-zeman/citaty).