absence
What wind is to fire
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~ Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
We call it prejudice
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
~ Michael Crichton
More important than fear
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
The absence of alternatives
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ~ Henry Kissinger