Fearful Obedience Quotes

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

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.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

God helps those who fear Him.

Feare, the Bedle of the Law.

In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

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

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.