Fearful Leadership Quotes

It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered 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.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

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

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

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

Safer to be feared than loved.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.