Extort Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their…
— Michael Parenti
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But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race,…
— Martin Luther
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I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars.…
— Michael Biehn
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees…
— Isabel Paterson
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Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only…
— James Goldsmith
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
— John Stuart Mill
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Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
— John Galt
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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
— Tryon Edwards
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Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
— Tupac Shakur
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Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with…
— Lysander Spooner
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Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open…
— Karen Armstrong
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being…
— Rafael Correa
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We pillage, we plunder we rifle and loot, we kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. We extort, we pilfer we filch and sack,…
— Pirates Of The Carribean
Who Wrote These Extort Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Extort Quotes as follows: