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13dd10a 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. dignity elizabeth-bennet empowerment fear independence intimidation self-determination strength stubbornness women Jane Austen
9604556 To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. intimidation peace psychology strategy victory war Sun Tzu
b7409f2 When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship--though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all. To re-state the premise of the argument again: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction. No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined. President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved... bastille bullying censorship demagogy dictatorship enlightenment fascism fatwa first-amendment free-speech friendship george-hw-bush hate humor individualism intimidation iran irony khomeini literature love principles religion rushdie satanic-verses stupidity theocracy united-states united-states-constitution washington-post Christopher Hitchens
7513b51 One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. intimidation Barbara Hambly
973924b During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time. fear intimidation propaganda reputation Erik Larson
304795f Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause. intimidation statecraft Geraldine Brooks