Beloved Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are ‘ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, and greedy for gain. While you work for their benefit, they are completely yours,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to…

— Bell Hooks

The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire…

— Sigmund Freud

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

— Socrates

“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to…

— Sigmund Freud

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

— Aristotle

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

— Saint Augustine