For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Bribe is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The X makes it sound cool. — Bender (The Cartoon Character Copy Share Image
Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion. — Alexander Lebedev Copy Share Image
I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt… — David Boreanaz Copy Share Image
Today is February 14th - St. Valentine's day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Identity theft, financial laundering, as well as ransom and ransomware - I mean, think of it - all involving extortion of a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion? — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All this just to be your friend, I was there until the end, extortion and arson, petty larceny. — REM Copy Share Image
“Scavenge not for fruits where you planted no trees. Dig not for gold where you buried no treasures.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people… — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic… — David P. Bryden Copy Share Image
For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
“From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it… — John McCain Copy Share Image
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen You can hear the sound of limitations exploding Please sir, may… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The Congressmen and Senators themselves had seen to it that bribery was the only way of doing business with them. Frequently they… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Well the thing is that under the [Ronald] Reagan administration, excesses have occurred in terms of over regulating certain types of behavior,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value—you have now established an unselfish society where they trade… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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