I scorn their hatred, if they do but fear me.

Let them hate me so that they fear me. | Thomas Fitzherbert, The First Part of a Treatise concerning Policy and Religion, 2nd ed. (1615) pp. 307, 374 | Let them hate me, as long as they're afraid of me. | Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (London: Quercus, 2006) p. 27