#feared

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. ↗

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared. ↗

— Ray Nagin

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

— Cornelius Nepos

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. ↗

— Ovid

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It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#feared #nixon

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. ↗