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

• You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Hope
  • Longevity

• 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

• I do believe there needs to be an investigation of the intelligence community's findings, classified findings, in order to ensure the electoral integrity of our system moving forward.

  

  Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Community
  • Moving
  • Integrity

• I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

  

  George Michael
  • Music
  • Release
  • No Doubt

• There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive. Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Chance
  • Child
  • Survive

• Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Faith
  • Enthusiasm
  • Depressing

• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  

  Etta James
  • Church
  • Sing
  • Performing

• 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