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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

— Max Brooks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

— Haley Joel Osment

New, unfamiliar, and mysterious threats to our health are scary. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - where we identify, on average, one new health threat each year - we work around the clock with an approach that prioritizes finding out what we need to know as fast as we can to protect Americans.

— Tom Frieden

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

— Joe Dante

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

— Kathleen Blanco

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

— Art Bell

Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

— Eli Roth

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

— Paul Haggis

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

— Stan Dale

✗Opposing Perspectives

Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

— Sherrod Brown