Best quotes by Martha Nussbaum on Fear

Checkout quotes by Martha Nussbaum on Fear

• ‟ Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe and pleasing setting.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ We see unreasoning fear driving a certain amount of public policy, perhaps more in Europe than in the U.S.

  - Martha Nussbaum
  

• ‟ When we feel helpless later in life, fear makes us scapegoat others. Instead of fixing the problems, we say, 'Oh, it's all their fault - those women or immigrants are infesting our country.' Rather than useful protest or constructive solutions, we get angry at these handy targets.

  - Martha Nussbaum