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Quotes About Intimidation

Even the sheep are afraid of me.
~ Ariel Sharon
Don't give them 3-point shots if that's what they're trying to do and embarrass you in any way.
~ Danny Ainge
In 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York law requiring the Klan to file membership lists with state authorities on the grounds that, as the appellate court in the case wrote, "It is a matter of common knowledge that the association or organization"—the Klan—"exercises activities tending to the prejudice and intimidation of sundry classes of our citizens.
~ Jon Meacham
Joe began to get publicity-crazy," Smith recalled in an interview with the historian David M. Oshinsky. "And the other senators were now afraid to speak their minds, to take issue with him. It got to the point where some of us refused to be seen with people he disapproved of. A wave of fear had struck Washington.
~ Jon Meacham
predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, sex and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. What is missing, in other words, are the very qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony.
~ Jon Ronson
Stone announced in early April that if delegates at the Republican National Convention had the nerve to switch from Trump to another candidate, "we will disclose [their] hotels and room numbers." Anderson
~ Jon Ronson
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Azevedo Bandeira is an expert in the art of progressive intimidation, in the satanic maneuver of gradually humiliating his interlocutor by combining verities and gibes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.
~ Joseph Campbell
Compelled respect always implies fear.
~ A.S. Neill
The Kid made a pass at Vi," Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. "He told her he'd like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule." "The Kid said that?" Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. "I don't even know what that means. 'Like a mule'?
~ Ace Atkins
The cowards!
~ Adam Blade
Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*
~ Adam Hochschild
Morality born of intimidation is immoral.
~ Adam Phillips
That's a nice sense of immunity from prosecution you got there," Alma told them. "Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
~ Adam Roberts
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death
~ Adolf Hitler
Gürtner was very hesitant, so I suggested that he should allow the Gestapo to try their hand, adding that nothing would happen to the fellow, that at the most he would get a good hiding, that had I myself received in one fell swoop all the thrashings I deserved (and had had) in my life, I should be dead !
~ Adolf Hitler
Brutality creates respect.
~ Adolph Hitler
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
~ Michelle Malkin
It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.
~ S.E. Cupp
If I were your enemy, I'd magnify your fears, making them appear insurmountable, intimidating you with enough worries until avoiding them becomes your driving motivation. I would use anxiety to cripple you, to paralyze you, leaving you indecisive, clinging to safety and sameness, always on the defensive because of what might happen. When you hear the word faith, all I'd want you to hear is "unnecessary risk.
~ Priscilla Shirer
A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
~ Proverb
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
~ Publilius Syrus
Brett has just shit his pants. He's not crying or whimpering, but he's so full of fear, it's as if his body is imploding.
~ Quentin Tarantino