If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Theodore RooseveltTag: diplomacy intimidation
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
Leonard RavenhillTag: fear courage faith intimidation
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Paulo CoelhoTag: fear intimidation
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane AustenTag: fear strength empowerment women courage self-determination independence elizabeth-bennet stubbornness intimidation dignity
A nervous silence loosens tongues
Jacqueline CareyTag: politics silence sex intimidation nervous tongues
It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.
Norman MacleanTag: love universe intimidation
It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
Suzanne CollinsTag: threat intimidation
When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…
Christopher HitchensTag: humor friendship love hate stupidity religion atheism united-states literature censorship individualism free-speech dictatorship first-amendment principles fascism irony bullying enlightenment washington-post theocracy intimidation rushdie iran bastille demagogy fatwa george-hw-bush khomeini satanic-verses united-states-constitution
How was it possible that he could handle Swiss bankers, West End impresarios, senior partners and seasoned solicitors, but was a quivering wreck in the presence of this man?
Jeffrey ArcherTag: reverence intimidation
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
Suzanne CollinsTag: threat intimidation hunger-games katniss-everdeen
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