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• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.
  -- Niccolo Machievelli...
• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. Latin Proverb
• A bear robbed of cubs is safer than the folly of fools.
• It is much safer to obey than to rule. -- Thomas A. Kempi
• Safer than drugs and just a little more interesting.
• Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its excesses are not regulated by conscience