“The world, the system, moves forward out of fear. That’s why they have to threaten us to play the game. We’re threatened with loss of job, money, reputation, or prestige. It’s all based on fear.”

Introduction
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Context: The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. It is unlikely that the techniques of liberation spontaneously adopted by women will be in such fierce conflict as exists between warring self-interests and conflicting dogmas, for they will not seek to eliminate all systems but their own. However diverse they may be, they need not be utterly irreconcilable, because they will not be conquistatorial.

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

Conquest of Fear (c-1960)

Source: Think (1999), Chapter One, Knowledge, p. 17

"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 76
Cloud Atlas (2004), Letters from Zedelghem (Part 1)
Original: (fr) Et si vous nuisez à ma réputation, eh bien, il faudra queue je ruine la vôtre!

Source: The Alchemist

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXX : Domestic Scenes; Arthur to Helen

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 142.

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916), p. 37