According to him, aphobia supersedes the individual's instinctive fear for selfish survival and well-being, when more evolutionarily important subjects than that individual's own life are in danger.

Saint Augustine says the only one who can love you truly and fully is God, because love with a human only allows for flaws such as “ jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and contention .” According to Saint Augustine, to love God is “ to attain the peace which is yours .” ( Saint Augustine's Confessions )

According to Thucydides, the Spartans acted in this way out of fear that the Athenians would switch sides and support the helots ; the offended Athenians repudiated their alliance with Sparta.

According to Livy, Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and final king of Rome, judged capital criminal cases without the advice of counsellors, thereby creating fear amongst those who might think to oppose him.

According to Alexandre de Marenches, chief of External Documentation and Counter-Espionnage Service ( now known as the DGSE ), the shah declined that France expel Khomeini for fear that the cleric should move to Syria or Libya.

According to Lucretius's frequent statements in his poem, the main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius's mind of the supernatural and the fear of death — and to induct him into a state of ataraxia.

According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day making it the most feared day and date in history.

According to a Bushmen story ; when the Creator assigned each animal their place in nature, the hippos wanted to live in the water, but were refused out of fear that they might eat all the fish.

According to Free Software Foundation compliance engineer David Turner, the term viral license creates a misunderstanding and a fear of using copylefted free software.

According to legend, Isabella and Mortimer famously plotted to murder Edward in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order ( in ) which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ".

According to Nachman Ben-Yehuda, " the Hebrew word Haredi derives from harada – fear and anxiety – meaning, ' he who is anxious about, and / or fearful of, the word of the Almighty.

According to Perry Link, pressure on Western institutions also takes more subtle forms, including academic self-censorship, whereby research on Falun Gong could result in a denial of visa for fieldwork in China ; or exclusion and discrimination from business and community groups who have connections with China and fear angering the Communist Party.

According to Gerald, the king said at the time: " It is neither necessary or expedient for king or archbishop that a man of great honesty or vigour should become Bishop of St. David's, for fear that the Crown and Canterbury should suffer thereby.

According to Aristotle, " the structure of the best tragedy should be not simple but complex and one that represents incidents arousing fear and pity -- for that is peculiar to this form of art.

According to philosopher Nayef Al-Rodhan, “ fear ( survival )- induced pre-emptive aggression ” is a human reaction to injustices that are perceived to threaten survival.

According to this literature, Canadian identity has been defined by a fear of nature, by settler history and by unquestioned adherence to the community.

:: According to legend, Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March famously plotted to murder Edward II of England in such a way as not to draw blame on themselves, sending a famous order in Latin which, depending on where the comma was inserted, could mean either " Do not be afraid to kill Edward ; it is good " or " Do not kill Edward ; it is good to fear ":

According to author Leo Silva, Earp showed no fear of any man.

According to Rank ( 1929 – 31 ), " Birth fear remains always more universal, cosmic as it were, loss of a connection with a greater whole größeren Ganzen, in the last analysis with the ' All ' All ...

According to Bevan the child king's consent was given more from fear than anything else and Agathocles along with several of his supporters being killed by the Alexandrian mob.

According to Herodotus " The Spartans sent the men with Leonidas on ahead so that the rest of the allies would see them and march with no fear of defeat, instead of medizing like the others if they learned that the Spartans were delaying.

According to the Pyramid Texts, Nephthys, along with Isis, was a force before whom demons trembled in fear, and whose magical spells were necessary for navigating the various levels of Duat, as the region of the afterlife was termed.

According to this theory some navigations were kept secret for fear of competition by neighbouring Castile.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Bohemond fled to Capua in fear that Sichelgaita, who was rumoured to have poisoned Guiscard, would poison him.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to Price after death the self will find itself in a dream world of memories and mental images from their life.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

According to their teaching, a period of universal apostasy followed the death of the Twelve Apostles.

According to some sources, the emir himself was behind Muhammad's fall, as well as Al-Mutarrif's death in 895.

According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

According to al-Maqrizi, the Yassa of Genghis Khan contained a provision that mandated the death penalty for anyone who became bankrupt three times.

According to the New Testament Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb, and rose from the dead three days later.

According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.

According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

According to her personal accounts, when she appeared to be near death, she called out for her Bible.

According to Cortés himself, on 27 February 1525 it was revealed to him by a citizen of Tenochtitlan named Mexicalcingo that Cuauhtémoc, Coanacoch ( the ruler of Texcoco ) and Tetlepanquetzal ( the ruler of Tlacopan ) were plotting his death.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

According to Sandra Frankiel, the records of " Jesus ' life and death, his acts and words " provide the " founding myths " of Christianity.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

According to the preserved part of the inscription, unintentional homicides receive a sentence of exile, while intentional murders are punishable by death.

According to Suetonius, a number of omens had foretold Domitian's death.

According to Suetonius, the people of Rome met the news of Domitian's death with indifference, but the army was much grieved, calling for his deification immediately after the assassination, and in several provinces rioting.

According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper.

According to another prisoner's account, Allen wandered off after learning of his son's death.