Extorted Quotes

#1. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

Trey Gowdy

#2. Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Adam Smith

#3. Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Ayn Rand

#4. I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

Freya Stark

#5. The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

John Dryden

#6. The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alexander Pope

#7. Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape.

Max Barry

#8. All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.

Elihu Burritt

#9. You want me,Andy. I can feel it.
Yes I want you, I admitted.
In a way you'll never want me.

Ginger Voight

#10. The hunger has come back now because I want to be a double Olympic champion. I want to be a legend.

Jade Jones

#11. Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

Graham Moore

#12. Too many people who know more about the lives of others than they do their own.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#13. know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.

Andrew Klavan

#14. The silence is screaming out for noise.

Tim Sanders

#15. While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people and strangers; it is too risky and inhuman; also the consequences are often painful in a fairly charming way.

J.D. Salinger