“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
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“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)
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author
“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Midnight Bayou
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
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.
“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Note to Stanza 28 part 1
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Quoted in the US Wired Magazine (April 2007) http://archive.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/10/myanmarfacebook <br class="br">Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)