“Is it better to be loved or feared?”

“It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

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

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

“Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”

Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

“One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.”

Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist

“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

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…