I still maintain that it is not love, compassion, humanism, or brotherly sentiments that will save mankind. No, not at all. It is the sheer terror of extinction that can save us, if anything can.

The fear of separation is all that unites.

Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Because fear and ove can hardly co exist together,if we must chose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

Either we learn to live together in full cooperation or we will cause our own extinction.

It is better to be feared than loved.

It is safer to be feared than loved

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Fear is stronger than love

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Rather than death or exile, if we feared fear itself, we would practise avoiding the things we believe to be bad. [20] As it is, in the classroom we’re fierce and fluent, quick to answer any little question on these topics, and adept at drawing the right conclusion.

Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.

Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience. In our society we make much of love and say little about fear. Yet we are all terribly afraid most of the time. [...] Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. [...] Fear promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies with sameness, then difference will appear as a threat. When we choose love, we move against fear and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect to find ourselves in the other.