“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”

— Michel De Montaigne

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(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592

David Frith (1937) cricket writer and historian

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“Panicky fear is more contagious than typhoid or cholera. The atom bombs cause terrible panicky fear. People leave their houses and move to villages.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

Conquest of Fear (c-1960)

“Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.”

Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

Edmund Burke book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Part II Section II
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

“Fear saps passion.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

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“The wish for freedom is contagious, that's why all tyrants fear it. Freedom seen from close up inspires human strivings. Its triumphant march began in Poland.”

Bronisław Komorowski (1952) Polish politician, president of Poland

"President: National tradition source of our strength" https://www.prezydent.pl/en/president-komorowski/news/art,640,president-national-tradition-source-of-our-strength.html (4 June 2014)

“When it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secure. So passion does not direct them. Fear does.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

1770s, Thoughts on Government (1776)

“So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.”

Octavia E. Butler book Clay's Ark

Source: Clay's Ark (1984), Chapter 28 (p. 609)

“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”

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