Let us never forget that no truth exists which is not procured through the will to action.
While fear will make a great many flee from a threat, it only takes 1 to act on his will to turn around and face the wind before others will act to do the same until the threat is easily overcome.
Maurice Blondel's “Action” Against the Totalitarians
Volume 9 Issue 2, January 1940, pp. 214-221
https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.9.2.214
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/epdf/10.3138/utq.9.2.214