To Be Loved Or Feared Quotes

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

Michael Scott

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

Cornelius Nepos

#4. Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.
But then she felt betrayal, she hated, and she was feared.
Hate gave her power.

Rachel Cohn

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. How would some townsman feel who loved his city, and knew that a band of farmers with their ploughs threatened his very pavements and would tear his high buildings down? As he would feel, fearing that turnips would thrive where his busses ran, so I felt and feared for Lisronagh.

Lord Dunsany

#11. To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

#14. She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Thomas Hardy

#15. For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

John Charles Pollock

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

Laozi