“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“The scraping subjects, ruled by fear, they told mewhiskey works better than beer.”
King's Crossing.
Lyrics, From a Basement on the Hill (posthumous, 2004)
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“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
XI. 489–492 (tr. Robert Fagles); Achilles' ghost to Odysseus.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear
A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air,
A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread,
Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone;
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground. P. S. Worsley's translation:
: Rather would I, in the sun's warmth divine,
Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief,
Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Better to die than to live in fear.”
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Roran, on the cause of the Varden
Inheritance (2011)
“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“The rule of law is not an exception to rule by fear; it is the fulfillment of rule by fear.”
Corey Robin (1967) American academic
Fear: The History of a Political Idea
