intimidation

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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.	stubbornness self-determination independence women fear empowerment strength elizabeth-bennet intimidation dignity	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.	war intimidation victory peace strategy psychology	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...	enlightenment irony literature hate stupidity religion friendship humor love bastille demagogy fatwa first-amendment satanic-verses washington-post united-states-constitution george-hw-bush iran khomeini theocracy intimidation dictatorship united-states rushdie individualism fascism principles bullying free-speech censorship	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 reputation intimidation propaganda	Erik Larson
304795f	Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.	statecraft intimidation	Geraldine Brooks

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.

stubbornness self-determination independence women fear empowerment strength elizabeth-bennet intimidation dignity

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.

war intimidation victory peace strategy psychology

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...

enlightenment irony literature hate stupidity religion friendship humor love bastille demagogy fatwa first-amendment satanic-verses washington-post united-states-constitution george-hw-bush iran khomeini theocracy intimidation dictatorship united-states rushdie individualism fascism principles bullying free-speech censorship

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 reputation intimidation propaganda

Erik Larson

304795f

Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.

statecraft intimidation

Geraldine  Brooks