Feared Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

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.