Lucius Accius Quotes

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

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

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.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Can you be cruel and proud? For a great man among the commonalty, and in particular among such as we shall have to do with, will not be thought anything worth if he be not feared and dreaded, and at times renowned for his cruelty. It is thus that the Flemings wish to be governed; and among them men's lives should be no more valued, nor should they have more pity shown to them, than swallows or larks, which are caught in the proper season for the table.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

Xavier McDaniel made me respect him. I thought I could do anything I wanted to. He grabbed me one time and almost choked me out. He said, 'You're going to do this. You're going to go get coffee. You're going to go get doughnuts.' It's a game of respect.

We would rather be feared than respected.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I like power and I like to use it.

Fear controls you.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.