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Quotes About Intimidation

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
She only knew that they intimidated her, with their savage candor and their awful neediness, which invariably left her feeling inadequate and helpless.
~ Unknown
It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.
~ Jodi Picoult
males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
~ Jodi Picoult
A ousadia necessária para quebrar o poder da intimidação precisa ser alimentada com o nosso amor por Deus. "Porque Deus não nos deu o espírito de temor [de intimidação], mas de poder, de amor e de moderação" (2 Tm 1:7). Como já disse, vi homens ungidos desistirem sob o peso da intimidação durante momentos de pressão.
~ John Bevere
I swear if I see you again I will cut your di.. off.
~ Unknown
You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.
~ Unknown
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
~ John Gotti
A bully to the weak but a bootlicker to the strong.
~ Dick Francis
In this book, I turn the tables on the Democratic Left and show that they—not Trump—are the real fascists. They are the ones who use Nazi bullying and intimidation tactics and subscribe to a full-blown fascist ideology. The charges that they make against Trump and the GOP are actually applicable to them.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom. ... Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. You thought he would protect you. I understand completely.
~ Don DeLillo
Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Hubert complains that the electric wastebasket has been overheating. I haven't noticed it but that's what Hubert says and Hubert is rarely wrong about things that don't matter. The electric wastebasket is a security item. Papers dropped into it are destroyed instantly. How the electric wastebasket accomplishes this is not known. An intimidation followed by a demoralization eventuating in a disintegration, one assumes. It is not emptied. There are not even ashes.
~ Donald Barthelme
Apple didn't find their footing until Steve Jobs understood that people felt intimidated (internal problem) by computers and wanted a simpler interface with technology.
~ Donald Miller
logic, that's the appeal to fear. Make people afraid of something and you can make them do what you want.
~ Donna Leon
When someone threatens me, I don't threaten them back. Bad people don't respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I'm going to shoot that person.
~ J.A. Konrath
He wore a blazer, or more accurately, three XL blazers sewn together. I could fit my whole body into one of his pant legs. My tiny thirty-two caliber Seecamp in my boot heel wouldn't do shit to this man. If I shot him, the bullets would wet themselves and run away, crying. I
~ J.A. Konrath
Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.
~ J.D. Robb
The leader, a big-bellied Mexican wearing a huge sombrero, sat in a black saddle studded with silver conchos. Spurs jingled at the heels of his boots. A necklace of human ears hung from around his neck. The blood on them still looked fairly fresh.
~ Unknown
Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you? Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did? Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you? Has he ever shoved, poked, or grabbed you? Has he ever threatened to hurt you? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.
~ Unknown
I am often asked whether physical aggression by women toward men, such as a slap in the face, is abuse. The answer is: "It depends." Men typically experience women's shoves or slaps as annoying and infuriating rather than intimidating, so the long-term emotional effects are less damaging. It is rare to find a man who has gradually lost his freedom or self-esteem because of a woman's aggressiveness.
~ Unknown
Abuse is not his goal, but control is, and he finds himself using abuse to gain the control he feels he has a right to.
~ Unknown
The abuser creates confusion because he has to. He can't control and intimidate you, he can't recruit people around him to take his side, he can't keep escaping the consequences of his actions, unless he can throw everyone off the track.
~ Unknown
How do we change societal values so that women's rights to live free of insults, invasion, disempowerment, and intimidation is respected? One way is simply to declare out loud to people in your life that women have these rights unconditionally.
~ Unknown