Scare Tactics Quotes:

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Bill Hicks: Sane Man". Documentary, 1989.

topic: Lying, Thinking, Scare Tactics

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

- Bill Maher

source: Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

topic: Scare Tactics, Medicine, Western, Western Medicine

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

- Sam Shepard

topic: Scare, Democracy, Tactics, Fragile Things, Being Responsible

We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.

- Mae Brussell

topic: Agency, Media, Numbers, Mass Media, Intelligence Agencies

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

- David Levithan

topic: Kissing, Scare, Tools, Scare Tactics, Sins Of The Flesh

For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

- Reince Priebus

topic: Senior, Retirement, Cutting, Scare Tactics

I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.

- Michael Stipe

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Sex, Real, Teenager, Scare Tactics