Better To Be Feared Or Loved Quotes

#1. Is it better to be loved or feared?

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. It is better to be feared than loved. - MACHIAVELLI

Kate Quinn

#3. It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Don King

#5. Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

Philip Zimbardo

#6. It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. Machiavelli believed it was better to be feared than loved, because attachment is easily severed, but the terror of pain is ever present.

J.M. Darhower

#9. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Bell Hooks

#11. It is better to be feared than loved.

Lewis Carroll

#12. From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

Niccolo Machiavelli