“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

"A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." https://pdf.yt/d/RKyhnDdu-DXG3J6s 20 August 2011.
Released upon his death.

“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)

“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”
Source: The Riddle