2007-07-29 18:57:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
President Franklin D. Roosevelt made that statement. When we are fearful, our bodies release adrenaline. This spike in adrenaline makes it difficult for us to think and react. In a difficult situation, fear is the enemy because it robs us of the ability to properly handle the situation. He was speaking of our need to remain calm in the face of evil and to be able to do what was right. The quote is still meaningful today. Fear, in any area of our lives, takes control and we are unable to fully enjoy life.
2007-07-29 19:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by Rescuer in MD 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FDR said this to the American public.
Think of the famous Aristotle quote: "Law is reason free from passion". FDR's quote falls into the same category.
Passion can cloud judgment and our ability to reason out a situation. When that happens, emotions such as fear overrun our ability to rationalize. Fear is instinctual, something from the gut. It lacks any mental reasoning.
FDR was saying it to the American Public en mass. The individual has the capacity to reason. The public, does not. "The masses" are instinctual and follow the lead. They do not think, and they let others run the show for them and tell them how to feel as well.
2007-07-30 02:25:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More "recently", Albus Dumbledore said this as one of his pearls of wisdom! It means, when you give in to fear, and acknowledge fear as the master for the moment, with power over you, your ability to act is very much affected adversely, you surrender your strength and wits to fear, and allow the feared circumstances to overpower and overwhelm you: muster courage, learn to just not fear that fear and nothing else; for, nothing else is fearsome in life, in a natural way, you don't really have fear of anything else (in your mind), once you know that, you are not afraid of anything anymore! It is often said that man can never drown to death, because there is an inbuilt swimming skill in everyone of us! But what causes drowning death is panic, fear of drowning death at the critical, crucial moment! If you don't have that fear at that moment, if you can master that fear, you jump into water, let someone push you into water, you will not be drowned, you will swim back to safety in a most natural way!
2007-07-30 02:18:06 · answer #3 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meaning is simple.
there is nothing to fear for everything can be overcomed by faith and courage, just learn to identify the cause of fear...
but fear itself is discomfort, it will affect everything in you including your reasoning and worst, your whole being...that's what made fear so fearing..giving yourself to the trouble fear might give you is the real fear!
2007-07-30 02:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by Andrei 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FDR said that. He meant that frightened people sometimes act irrationally, and they are easily misled by politicians.
But real danger (as there was then) requires that we act rationally. So fear itself was to be feared. We had to put aside our fear and act as if we weren't afraid.
2007-07-30 02:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well if u fear its mean u cant compete with anybody...because if u want be a great u must compete yourself first
2007-07-30 06:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by hikaru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋