Political Blackmail Quotes

#1. There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

Ivica Dacic

#2. Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

Simone Weil

#3. 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

#4. Brave enough? Or stupid enough?" "Sometimes," she said, pulling the cork out, "there is truly no difference.

G.A. Aiken

#5. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Miguel De Unamuno

#6. Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke

#7. Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

Jill Lepore

#8. Better I should call to people who aren't there than that people who are there should miss us because I didn't say anything.

Neil Gaiman

#9. I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.

Monte Irvin

#10. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence.

G.K. Chesterton