Feared Than Loved Quotes

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

Kate Quinn

#2. Safer to be feared than loved.

Gillian Flynn

#3. 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

#4. It is much safer to be feared than loved because ... love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. 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

#8. My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. 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

#12. It is safer to be feared than loved

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Cornelius Nepos

#14. She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

Jean M. Auel

#15. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

Lee Kuan Yew

#16. 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

#17. The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. to this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

#18. I've never had any desire to be loved. I prefer being feared. It gets the same results but without any hugging.

Tawni O'Dell

#19. It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#23. I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.
Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at the
world.

Susan Abulhawa

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

#25. A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Cornelius Nepos

#27. One who is loved is greater than one who is feared.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

Matthew Henry