Moral Blackmail Quotes

#1. A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister - that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)

Christopher Hitchens

#3. I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

Tucker Carlson

#4. Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

Andrew Peterson

#5. Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

Meg Wolitzer

#6. The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Jacques Ellul

#7. If you want to be treated like a queen then start acting like one. No arrogance or games. Be humble, graceful, kind & loving.

Behdad Sami

#8. A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy ... all the things that humans have.

Bob Brookmeyer

#9. Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Bobby Fischer