Top 100 Quotes About Blackmail
#1. Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
Mason Cooley
#2. Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
#3. You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"
Ray McGovern
#4. The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
Rafael Correa
#5. 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
#6. Blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
Ursula Curtiss
#7. Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.
Lawrence Lessig
#8. if you walk the straight and narrow, they can never blackmail you or coerce you into doing something you don't agree with.
Sidney Halston
#9. Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
Ruth Rendell
#10. Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.
Thomas Sankara
#11. One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
Robert Gottlieb
#13. Most things in life sound better than they are except for blackmail.
Lesley Kagen
#14. All children blackmail their parents with their innocence.
Joanne Greenberg
#15. In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
Alberto Fujimori
#16. No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.
Angela Merkel
#18. It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.
Evo Morales
#19. Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.
Fabrizio De Andre
#20. In an era when gay men like Beatles' manager Brian Epstein paid a fortune in blackmail to hustlers to keep their secrets safe, Andy Warhol took everything he was told to keep hidden and threw it right back in society's face.
Andrew Grant Jackson
#21. 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
#22. More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation.
Ben Goldacre
#23. I gave her a dangerous smile of my own. "Do not," I warned, "try to threaten, bribe, or blackmail me. Ever. You won't like the consequences.
Richelle Mead
#24. It was the first hint that she'd given that there was anything to her but an excess of shyness. He'd begun to actually doubt his own memory. Surely this woman hadn't come to his house and attempted blackmail.
Courtney Milan
#25. 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
#26. they'll get a lot more than detention for blackmail!
J.K. Rowling
#27. Her mouth drops open in disbelief. Your dad tried to blackmail the mob? Has he never seen The Godfather?
M. Leighton
#28. Blackmail is surprisingly difficult to pull off.
Claire North
#29. 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
#30. Is this blackmail or bribery?"
"Neither. It's insurance."
"Insurance?"
"Yeah. That's twelve cups of coffee. Twelve trips to Grounds. Twelve chances to see you.
Kim Holden
#31. 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
#32. I lie, I forge I blackmail." Edward shrugged. "But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low."
"Good to know you have some principles.
Courtney Milan
#33. That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you
Keri Arthur
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.
Lee Iacocca
#37. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.
Sarah Addison Allen
#38. Pigpen frowns. "He's been slippery, but I've got him. I'll be fucking up his world real soon."
Pigpen produced hard evidence against Kyle and his three other buddies who had been using that Bragger site to blackmail girls from school.
Katie McGarry
#39. I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.
Bob Dylan
#40. I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.
Tucker Carlson
#42. Blackmail.
It was the socially-approved equivalent of blow me, and I'll get you some of the good stuff.
Kitty Thomas
#43. It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
Tori Amos
#44. Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.
Don Marquis
#45. Bring me to the court, and I'll answer all your questions," I would tell the team. "There will be no court!" they would answer. "Are you a Mafia? You kidnap people, lock them up, and blackmail them," I said.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#46. I'm sorry," she said softly. "Even if you'd looked like you were born downwind of an outhouse, I would have snapped a thousand photos of you. And then used those photos to blackmail you later, but my reasons are inconsequential.
Gena Showalter
#47. 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
#48. Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau
#49. The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us ... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.
Saddam Hussein
#50. 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
#51. The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
Kim Jong-un
#52. I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
Sophie Hannah
#53. It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn't going to work for him. 'Course, that might be my fault ... since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.
Kim Harrison
#54. 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
#55. Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#56. To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.
Barack Obama
#57. I've known your real name since we were in fifth grade. I've been holding back the information for a potential blackmail opportunity.
Liliana Hart
#58. There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?
Garth Ennis
#59. Tarnelius leaned forward to give her a chaste peck on the lips.
"That's all I get?"
"Yes, that's all you get until you make the bond with me," Tarnelius said, smiling.
"That's blackmail."
"Hmm, so it is. I can live with that.
D.S. Schmeckpeper
#60. It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary.
Anthony Powell
#61. You have been paying blackmail, not for your vices, but for your virtues.
Ayn Rand
#62. Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
Muhammad Ali
#63. My husband would do anything for me ... ' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."
"It's a very real power, Harriet."
"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#64. I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.
Riley Keough
#65. The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.
Harry Hay
#66. Okay, okay, you win. One-just one- date. But that's all." She didn't look at Josh, just stalked off toward the nearest exit. "Do you get all your dates by blackmail?"
"Nope," he said cheerily as he easily kept pace with her. "Only the ones that matter
Dani Harper
#67. Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts.
Michael Jackson
#68. The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
Linus Torvalds
#69. You can't use blackmail on someone who doesn't know anything about the hold you have on them.
Charlaine Harris
#70. The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.
Stephen Hunt
#71. Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
Mark Twain
#72. Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
Jerrold Nadler
#73. To count upon his virtue and use it as an instrument of torture, to practice blackmail with the victim's generosity as sole means of extortion, to accept the gift of a man's good will and turn it into a tool for the giver's destruction.
Ayn Rand
#74. If this person is a blackmailer, El, I want you to have nothing more to do with it. Blackmailers are dangerous."
Her brows rose. "You've had dealings with them before, have you?"
Too bloody many times. "Attempting to blackmail the Mackenzie family is a popular pastime," Hart said.
Jennifer Ashley
#75. Did you just blackmail the game master?"
She shrugs. "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
Leah Rae Miller
#76. Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Jasper Fforde
#77. That remains to be seen," said Mr. Malfoy with a nasty smile. "But as all twelve of us have voted - " Hagrid leapt to his feet, his shaggy black head grazing the ceiling. "An' how many did yeh have ter threaten an' blackmail before they agreed, Malfoy, eh?" he roared.
J.K. Rowling
#79. You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.
Robert Young
#80. If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.
Jerrold Nadler
#82. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa
#83. I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective
Douglas Preston
#84. As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
Larry Hagman
#85. Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
Ida Tarbell
#86. I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.
Tim Lee
#87. But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.
Meljean Brook
#89. You're demanding fidelity, and I'll give you that. But if I intended to be celibate, I would've become a priest.
Naima Simone
#90. Real date or not, that was rude, and disrespectful, and I was ten seconds away from telling those girls that he was a post-op-transsexual and all his parts were' not in working order.
Chris Cannon
#91. I can be ruthless, unforgiving, and a manipulative bastard. But I don't play games with sex.
Naima Simone
#92. The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
Stephen L. Carter
#93. Having a heart that's three sizes too small must be really convenient for business.
Naima Simone
#95. Hello, Mrs. Tran ... I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars I asked for.
Nenia Campbell
#96. The unknown is scary. It's unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.
Geoff Green
#97. The tale of a righteous leftist - THE BRAND DEMAND
Johnny Worthen
#98. Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.
R.D. Ronald
#99. When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#100. I've had your kiss. I know what you taste like, and that's only worsened the need. Made me crave more.
Naima Simone
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