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Why coerce when you can contract ?
Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs
Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.
the not uncommon sexual humiliation of priests as a prelude to their murder,
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
salacious gossip. The fact that
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
Revenge is a dish best served published!
Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Secrets are the currency of intimacy
Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation.
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.
When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
So all of this agony was for nothing?"
"You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing."
"You were cruel."
"So were you."
"You hurt me."
"And you hurt me. Is revenge everything you dreamed it might be?
One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
The thrill of being ignored!
A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.
Some men prefer the heady tang of revenge to the comfort of cash.
Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.
Confession ran in the family.
It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.
Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love.
Some people want what they are not willing to give.
revenge knows no boundaries!
Extortion rarely paves the straightest path to truth.
When sex and money are fused in the service of exploitation, the two create an even more destructive form of rage of a type often exhibited in narcissistic and potentially psychopathic populations.
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams ... never for reality.
Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Secrets for secrets, one whisper for another. Information is very powerful. Some would die for it. Some would kill for it. How much are you willing to pay, little wingless ones?
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
When you know what someone wants, it's easy to manipulate them.
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.
Once secrecy becomes sacrosanct, it invites abuse.
Often we agree to shady but attractive propositions and as a result we have sorrow
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.
Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
If you don't have money, gossip isn't bad leverage. Even inside one's own family.
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. We
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [ ... ]
Every power-seeking entity in the world, whether it's a government, a business, or an informal group, has gotten wise to the idea that if you can assemble information about other people, that information makes you powerful.
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power over one another? is an algebraic question
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
It's difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it's the barest promise.
secrecy is a hotbed of vanity
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
Revenge is the best revenge.
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards.
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.
Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,
It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
A phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.
The subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it. As
Pg 623 When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another:
Confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of intimacy.
Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.