Chris Colfer Quotes

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

When you play blackmail, you are asking for more blackmail.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

I've been racketeered on.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

We know that there are programs coming up that he wants, and wants badly. And the only way that we will get back the programs is to hold them for ransom.

People don’t willingly cooperate [with a prosecutor] unless you’ve got something to hold over their heads.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged," she added for good measure. Cries of "Mon Dieu!" and "That's not fair!" echoed immediately from the two vampires. "I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it," Denise warned them

I'm the terrorist, do what I say or I'll terrorize you.

Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you." She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?" "It's a much more personal death.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.