Friedrich Nietzsche on Fear

“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”

“To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.”

“The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."”