Val Kilmer Quotes

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

You can only beat a guy down so far before he has a tendency to start listening to what you're saying.

Deals, flattery, threats and promises are part of the process, certainly; do not flinch from any opportunity to scheme and plot, however sordid and demeaning it may appear.

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

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

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

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.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority.