#intimidation

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#threat #children

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#excruciating #felt #had #i #intimidation

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#intervention #intimidation #judges #must #political

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#control #days #drill #greatest #had

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#challenging #confronted #considerable #corruption #cost

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #equality #fear

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#blacks #elderly #employing #exercise #family