Quotes about Intimidation

Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Calling - Difficulty - Impossible - Industry - Intimidation - Laziness - Man

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.

Effectiveness - Help - Intimidation - Projection - Publishing - Serious - Taking - Writing

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

Conviction - End - Heavens - Intimidation - Intoxication - Man - Peace

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Drugs - Energy - Intimidation - Lifestyle - Open - Sex - Violence

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

End - Inspiration - Intimidation - Intoxication

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.

Energy - Feelings - Giving - Intimidation - Meaning - Partners - Playing - Proof - Relaxing - Strength

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.

Dominating - Intimidation - Movement - Overcome - Uncle

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Jane Austen

Writer, Novelist

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.

Frightening - Inspiration - Intimidation - Woman

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Death - Intimidation - Jail - Man - Money - Strength - Threat - Weapons

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

Impossible - Indifference - Inspiration - Intimidation - Life - People - Reject - Silence - War

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Cowardice - Intimidation

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Saddam Hussein

Former President of Iraq

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Army - Intimidation - War

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Fools - Intimidation - Loss - Man - Mindset - Mistake

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Feelings - Intimidation - Wants

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Edward Abbey

Artist, Author, Author

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

Climate - Controversy - Hate - Intimidation - Majority - Noise - Thinking - Ugly - Views

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

Cowardice - Intimidation - Man - Oneself

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Cowardice - Intimidation

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Jimmy Carter

Former President of the United States

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

Human - Indifference - Intimidation - Morals - Right - Sharing - Wellness

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Intimidation

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