Quotes About Blackmail

There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.

The mob guys know it. They know that you bribe a politician only once. After that, you blackmail him.

He called the police and told them I was trying to blackmail him." "Were you?" "Not exactly. Bertha was trying to cut herself a piece of cake, and—" "And what?" I asked. "And the knife slipped," she said.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Askesis is addressed to the other: turn back, look at me, see what you have made of me. It is a blackmail: I raise before the other the figure of my own disappearance, as it will surely occur, if the other does not yield.

To complicate matters, new refiners now entered the business expressly to blackmail him into buying them out.

I wonder how it worked inside the Stasi: who thought up these blackmail schemes? Did they send them up the line for approval? Did pieces of paper come back initialled and stamped 'Approved': the ruining of a marriage, the destruction of a career, the imprisonment of a wife, the abandonment of a child? Did they circulate internal updates: 'Five new and different ways to break a heart'?

I think we should speak more of my suggestions, Miss Chatsworth.' He tilted his head and looked at the door, then dismissed it and whoever might be behind it. 'Unless you enjoy the spread of ugly rumors?' 'Blackmail?' She twisted her lips ... 'How bourgeois.' 'Actually, blackmail heartens back to the best of kings.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

the ADL was created in the wake of the Leo Frank lynching in 1915 to engage in domestic spying and blackmail, if necessary, to protect Jewish interests in the United States.

In spite of the Attorney General's warning to Hoover that the ADL's "fact finding" was nothing but gossip which the Jews were using to settle scores with their opponents in the culture wars of that era, Hoover retained the Bureau's contacts with the ADL. He refused to break ties with the ADL because Jewish criminals like Meyer Lansky were paying the ADL to blackmail Hoover by gathering information about his homosexuality.

By God, if you'd split on me to Mr Ducie, I'd have broken you. It might have cost me hundreds, but I've got them, and the police always back my sort against yours. You don't know. We'd have got you into quod, for blackmail, after which — I'd have blown out my brains.' 'Killed yourself? Death?' 'I should have known by that time that I loved you. Too late . . . everything's always too late.

It's blackmail.' 'He says you can't love someone properly without …' 'I bet he does.' Kit sounded sarcastic.

you're trying to blackmail me.' 'I thought you were saying this might be an open line.

you must blackmail Julius. Come, come, don't make a fuss! Blackmail is a wholesome institution, necessary for the maintenance of morals.

That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don't do as I say I'll ruin you.

the freedom of a people or a country be defined as absolute independence, is it not obvious that in a world like ours freedom cannot exist, not only because of inevitable economic interdependences, but because of the part played by pressure, or, less politely, by blackmail, at all levels of international intercourse?

Stoneville seems like a decent enough chap." She stifled a hysterical laugh. "Oh, yes, quite decent. We met him in a brothel, and he's blackmailing us into deceiving his grandmother.

A past kiss with adorably bookish Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of Thornstock. After all, there are countless debutantes for a reputed rakehell to charm beyond a young lady whose singular passion is chemistry—of the laboratory type. But Thorn has not forgotten—or forgiven—the shocking blackmail scheme sparked by that single kiss, or the damage caused to both their names

If whoever had been working with her thought they could blackmail him… He hoped they would try. He wasn't that teenager they'd tricked all those years ago. This cowboy was more than ready for them now.

There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?

What I cannot stand in the behaviour of the E.U. with regard to Great Britain is blackmail, constant threat.

What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.

Look. Whatever Gina Leigh told you about Delilah, it's not true. Gina is a vindictive psychopath. She's been blackmailing people, impersonating her daughter, for years.