Extort Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
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
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .… — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. — John Galt
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
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others. — Tryon Edwards
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. — Tupac Shakur
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
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
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
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

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