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  • Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

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

    "The Legacy Of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, And One Giant Flamethrower" by Robert Mcmillan, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.
  • Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.

    War   Men   Simple  
    Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

    "In Bluebeard's Castle". Book by George Steiner, 1971.
  • Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.

  • blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

  • It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

  • Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending for and against political candidates, as well as promises and threats of such spending to bribe and blackmail such candidates, by appeal to the free-speech clause of the First Amendment.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

  • No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

  • When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

    "The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.
  • Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

    Exercise   Two   Korea  
  • I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

    "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2005.
  • To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

    Issues   Giving   Trying  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency. To cover up her corrupt dealings, Hillary illegally stashed her State Department emails on a private server. Her server was easily hacked by foreign governments. Then there were the 33,000 emails she deleted. While we may not know what's in those deleted emails, our enemies probably know every single one of them. So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be the president of the United States. This fact alone disqualifies her from the presidency.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

    Character   Blow   Law  
  • The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

    Kuwait   Iraq   Opponents  
    "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.
  • I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

    Hands   Evil   Deceit  
    Song: I Am a Lonesome Hobo, Album: John Wesley Harding
  • The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

    Leader   World   Weapons  
    "Army Checks Readiness for War With Iraq". www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2002.
  • It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

    Running   Joy   Religion  
    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.124, Penguin
  • Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

    Real   People   Saving  
  • Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

  • all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

  • There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

    "Balkan summit leaders endorse stability pact". www.cnn.com. July 30, 1999.
  • It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

    Intellectual   Way   West  
    Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.170, Vintage
  • Change the way we fund campaigns. Until we do, Wall Street will always be able to blackmail the Dems and GOP to giving them what Wall Street wants.

    Wall   Giving   Campaigns  
  • She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

    P.C. Cast (2010). “Brighid's Quest”, p.298, Harlequin
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