
“Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”
From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. (16 BC)
Oderint dum metuant.
“Let them hate us as long as they fear us.”
“Let them hate me, so that they will but fear me.”
Oderint, dum metuant.
Quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006), p. 27 London: Quercus Publishing, ISBN 1905204965 , these derive from a statement by Suetonius, included below, in which he states these words were often used by Caligula, but imply that he was quoting the tragedian Accius.
Disputed
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
“They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 154
Part III: La Clé des Chants (p.103)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating. Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
“I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.”
Statement about his North Vietnamese prison guards, in response to a question asked by reporters aboard his campaign bus. (17 February 2000) He later refused to apologize for using a racial slur, stating: "I was referring to my prison guards, and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends." San Francisco Chronicle (18 February 2000) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL
2000s
“Holding on too long is just a fear of letting go.”
"...Like Clockwork", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
“People fear/hate other nations only when they don't know them.”
Treo Notes (December 2006 - December 2009)
“Go ahead, switch the style up. If niggas hate, then let them hate and watch the money pile up.”
In Da Club
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin (2003)
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Lady's Trial (1638)