Michael Mann Quotes

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

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

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

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.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

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.

Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

I get angry when people push people around.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

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)

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

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

That's how disagreements always ended with Hugh Hefner; he would just stomp off, and you were left to pick the pieces of your self-worth up off the floor. I'd invested every part of myself in the mansion and had nothing waiting for me outside those gates. I felt so trapped and so vulnerable to his criticisms.

It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.