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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolo Machiavelli

You Better Feared Both Than Loved Cannot

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

Man Severe Feared Vengeance His Done Should Injury Need

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte

Thousand Bayonets Feared More Hostile Than Newspapers Four

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Unknown

Friendship Mind Will Evil Beast Wild Wild Beast Wound Feared Insincere More Friend Than May Body Your Your Body

Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. Martha Beck

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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli

Secure Feared More Than Loved Much

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D. Brandeis

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Adam Smith

Virtue Feared More Excess Because Subject Than Vice Regulation Conscience

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Bill Gates

Time Ignorance Change People Fear Will Silicon Feared Invented Leads Come Accept Masters Always Time People Coal Engines Electricity

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. J. William Fulbright

Dignity Culture People World Differences Respected Recognized Possible Feared Rather Only Outlook Condemned Than Essential Human Common Human Dignity Peaceful Peaceful World Bond Appreciated

When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics. Michael Bloomberg

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. 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

Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone. Milo Yiannopoulos

Angry Property Hate Election Lost Every Everyone Destroying See Riots Feared About Voice He Roads Supporters Protests How Coming Blocking Trump Left Donald Donald Trump Where Themselves

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. David Ben-Gurion

Knowledge Courage Fear Ought Kind Feared How Special

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar? Alan Ball

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It was accountability that Nixon feared. Bob Woodward

Accountability Nixon Feared

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. Clare Balding

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. Clint Eastwood

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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

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