“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“The processes of power are pervasive, complex, and often disguised in our society.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

“Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.”

“It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.”

“No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.”

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its “fear of the Lord” and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”