Extort Quotes

#1. 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

#2. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.

William Shakespeare

#3. Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

John Galt

#4. 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

#5. Over and over, throughout this first year, he faces down those who would threaten the lives of millionaires to extort their millions from them. Of

Glen Weldon

#6. I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force

Steve Aylett

#7. 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. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

Michael Biehn

#8. 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 above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

Rafael Correa

#9. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

William Cowper

#10. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, ... nor of torture to extort confessions.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you and pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

Ayn Rand

#12. 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 soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

Lysander Spooner

#13. 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 as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

James Goldsmith

#14. Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Tryon Edwards

#15. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Tupac Shakur

#16. When they learned that a family in the slum was making money, they visited every other day to extort some.

Katherine Boo

#17. Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

James C. Collins

#18. True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It's what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Diana Peterfreund

#19. Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Chow Yun-Fat

#21. Dear child, I see your eyes - you already know the truth. Whomever you are waiting for ... they're never coming back.

Shannon L. Alder