Libba Bray Quotes

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

He intimidated me. When Lyndon Johnson would call on the phone, I would perspire. He knew how to intimidate you and liked it.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

An unfrightened prisoner makes an unlikely informer.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

The Cambodians [Khmer] are so stupid that we must frighten them. Ordinary moral suasion has no effect.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.

I'm a dangerous guy.

Terror works by surprise.

It's not a normal thing to receive a ransom demand in your inbox. I felt physically sick.

One of the things about horror movies that I've noticed with the children I've worked with is that they have a great time.

Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.