Conditioned Fear

Famous quotes containing the words conditioned and/or fear:

“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second- guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)