Daniel Hannan Quotes

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

If a politician, during a campaign, finds it necessary to resort to flattery, he should spread it on, not in thin layers, but with a trowel, or better yet, a shovel.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

There are an awful lot of people making lots of money promoting fear. Their hot microphones have flamethrowers.

Deals, flattery, threats and promises are part of the process, certainly; do not flinch from any opportunity to scheme and plot, however sordid and demeaning it may appear.

You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist and calling us all dam fools so fierce the froth slobbers over your lips...always blabbing we’re all going to hell straight off and you know all about it...Go ahead and bust all the chairs you want to. Smash a whole wagon load of furniture at every performance. Turn sixty somersaults and stand on your nutty head. If it wasn’t for the way you scare the women and kids I’d feel sorry for you and pass the hat. I like to watch a good four-flusher work, but not when he starts people puking and calling for the doctors

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

… deterrence success is heavily dependent both on signaling the adversary on your intentions and on that adversary interpreting your signals correctly. Communications, through words and deeds, is thus central to a deterrence relationship.

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

Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.