“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.” — Aleister Crowley Quote

“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”

“In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

“Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.”

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”

“The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.”

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

“We fear the thing we want the most.”

“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”

“I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.”

“Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.”

“I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.”