Are you a dreamer?

Which is the most universal human characteristic fear or laziness?
I believe this quotation although stated in the form of a question is really a statement. All humans, have both characteristics laziness and fear. They are both universal. The question really should be which characteristic is most influential in human behavior. I believe it is fear.
Laziness in extreme cases can be significant and have serious consequences for an individual and as a society. Laziness can lead to mistakes or bad decisions which can impact a persons life, job, and relationships. As a society, laziness again can lead to uninformed decisions, mistakes, and incompetence. Actions which can and have harmed us as a society.
However, fear, I believe is a universal characteristic that has the most adverse consequence for us as individuals and collectively as a society.
It is fear of someone different that I believe is the underlying reason for racism.
It is fear of people who are different and have different beliefs, that I believe have led to wars and such tragedies as the Holocaust.
Fear of the unknown, of course one could argue is the result of laziness. People who don't take the time to understand others, may be more likely to fear them.

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

The first part of this quote, sanity is a madness put to good uses," I believe means, sometimes what we percieve to be sane, may in fact be a bit insane. It is sane to go to work everyday in a job that your unhappy in just so you can continue to afford to your unhappy existence? It is sane to fight wars over principles and ideology. Is the differences between communism and capitilism worth the million of lives that died fighting over them?
Maybe a little madness is necessary in life. Instead of working fifty years in a job you hate, find something you love to do no matter what it pays or how old you are. "Mad" behavior according to who? The sane. Maybe the sane are a bit insane. Lets end the fighting over our differences and focus on the fact that are similarities are much greater. No more wars, over ideology, or religion. Mad to think about the possibility? If so, I am mad and proud of it.

Yes, I believe sanity is madness put to good use.

The next part of this quote is waking life is a dream controlled I believe means that we as humans respond to things when we are awake and try to control and organize them and give them a meaning. On the other hand, our dreams are not controlled, or controllable as waking life is. I agree with this, I believe as humans we are confronted with so many decisions, so much information, that we create a filter system where we organize those things we need or want to deal with , and we ignore everything else. We try to make life less chaotic, where our dreams, are completely chaotic, they don't make sense. They just happen, and we experience them without controlling them, at least while we are asleep.