There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.
When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.
So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.
