#feared

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared. ↗

— Ray Nagin

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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

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It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. ↗

— David O. Selznick

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I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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