- The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Freedom is fragile and always presupposes risk. "The people who can destroy a thing, they control it." This axiom is as true for the reactionaries that run the US Government as it is for Al Qaeda.