The connections between and among women are the most feared the most problematic and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

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.

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

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

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.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared that it's worth getting your teeth into.

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.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

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

Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public and the new is always alarming.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death because he feared they would rebel.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Prohibit the taking of omens and do away with superstitious doubts. Then until death itself comes no calamity need be feared.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'