Compare And Contrast Love And Fear

Throughout ages there have comparatively been more leaders using fear and less of those using love and a very low amount of those who managed to combine. By inspiring fear for instance Stalin was killing his own people while Hitler was killing foreigners. Both of those leaders were about to gain respect and confidence in peoples’ eyes that the way chosen by a head of the state is unambiguous and could not be disputed. Author of ‘The Prince’ insisted that even if the head by its nature cannot have all the virtues, he should give the impression that they are all inherent to him. Fear is the easiest way to prove so, while love is the toughest but right. There is a conviction that people are less afraid to offend those who inspire fear in them than love. But the thing is that the reciprocity in love will never strike back and people are not in a position to humiliate their leader. When it comes to people thinking about you, would you rather be feared or loved? Machiavelli said it is better to be feared and I think I disagree with that for several reasons.
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(Movemequotes.com, n.d.) Fear does not inspire, fear keeps others down. Love inspires and respects. People always want to feel inspiration and respect rather than feel put down and trembling in fear. I think Maximus from Gladiator was a great example of someone who made his army feel loved and respected. And the newly appointed emperor, Commodus, rules only by fear. In the end, his own army chooses the love and inspiration that Maximus showed. This is a great example of what it looks like to rule with love vs fear.[argument by example] Once Napoleon I stated: ‘He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat’. (Napoleon I 1814) If people fear their ruler, they are already those who lost. Fortune does not choose looser, it prefers winner. A nation with faith in themselves are much higher than the one humiliated and suppressed by