“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland
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“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
"A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." https://pdf.yt/d/RKyhnDdu-DXG3J6s 20 August 2011. <br class="br">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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“Better to die than to live in fear.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)
“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”
Alison Croggon book The Riddle
Source: The Riddle