Jenny Holzer Quotes

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

Why do you all push us around?

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim, denounces it, and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.