Blackmail Quotes

• Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

  Robin Morgan

  Friendship, Powerful, Mutual Love

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2011

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• 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.

  Robert Menzies

  Character, Blow, Law

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• Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Sentimental, Emotion

  Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd

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

  Alberto Fujimori

  Suffering, Facts, Terrorist

  Interview With Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.

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• If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Silence, Thumbs, Demand

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• Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love Is, Wonderful, Dear

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Leader, World, Weapons

  "Army Checks Readiness for War With Iraq". www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2002.

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• The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

  Dan B. Allender

  Struggle, Doors, Names

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.172, WaterBrook

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• Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

  John le Carre

  Bribery

  "Smiley's People". Book by John le Carre, November 1979.

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• Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

  Benito Mussolini

  Eugenics, Phantoms, Comedy

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• Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

  Ernst Thalmann

  Political, Cost, Confession

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• blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

  Ursula Curtiss

  Milk And Honey, Land, Age

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• It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

  Tori Amos

  Betrayal, Emotional, Musician

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• If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Thumbs, Littles, Faces

  Arthur Baer (1925). “The family album”

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

  Karl Kraus

  Broken, Triumph, Thieves

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• Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

  Catherine Wilson

  Compassion, Evil, Abuse

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Men, Law

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• She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

  P. C. Cast

  Sound, Threat, Vague

  P.C. Cast (2010). “Brighid's Quest”, p.298, Harlequin

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• Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Debt, Goes On

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3668, GENERAL PRESS

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• Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Intimidation, Made

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.260, Vintage

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• all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Children, Parent, Innocence

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• It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

  Albert Camus

  Intellectual, Way, West

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.170, Vintage

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• I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

  Mason Cooley

  Family, Family Life, Pastime

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• The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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