Erich Fried Quotes

Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

Erich Fried

• No Doubt
• Being Afraid

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• When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Community
  • Needs

• Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Thinking
  • Freedom
  • Belief

• Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Old

• I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

  

  Mr. T
  • Guys
  • Tough
  • Pretend

• When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do

  

  Chester Nez
  • Know
  • To Do
  • Going To

• The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Vote

• Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Time
  • Words
  • Our Lives

• The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Attention
  • Ideas
  • Hoping

• I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• No doubt it was better to have become president than not.

  

  Kim Young-sam
  • Doubt
  • President
  • Become

• Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Faith
  • Friend
  • No Doubt

• This is a big battle, ... There's no doubt statistically that there's been an undercount of massive proportions in Texas. No matter how hard we try, there's going to be one again.

  

  Ed Martin
  • Battle
  • No Doubt
  • Proportions

• The young guys need a validation of beating Michael in a wheel-to-wheel race, which they will do now because they're younger, more committed probably than Michael is. I'm not saying Michael's not committed, but he's 36. Wheel to wheel, the young guy's going to win, I have no doubt about that.

  

  Eddie Irvine
  • Win
  • Committed
  • Younger

• Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade: Were not our souls immortal made Our equal loves can make them such.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • Souls
  • Loves
  • No Doubt

• Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

  

  Erich Fried
  • No Doubt
  • Being Afraid