Extortion Quote by Barbara Tuchman Download Open image “For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.” — Barbara Tuchman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extortion People Reform Relief
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected… — Francis Lambert Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption — James Madison Copy Share Image
Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman 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 extremely dangerous. — Jill Stein 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 their moral… — Jack Donovan 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 inflammatory environs… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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 legalized extortion,… — Anonymous 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 money and… — Henry A. Wallace 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 happier than… — Sally Stanford 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, and excesses… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and… — Grover Cleveland 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 doors and… — Kamand Kojouri 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 voluntarily. What… — John McCain 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 to be… — Robert O. Paxton 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 advantages. So… — David P. Bryden Copy Share Image
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